media players and browser plugins, KDE 4.3

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 03:45:30 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 19:20 +0100, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 15:25:10 O. Sinclair wrote:
> > O. Sinclair wrote:
> > > O. Sinclair wrote:
> > >> Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> > >>> Hi there.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 13:46, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>> Tried that, installing
> > >>>> w32codecs
> > >>>> that is. No luck whatsoever,
> > >>> Because w32codecs is not what you need :) You need to install the
> > >>> kubuntu-restricted-extras package, that should do the trick. And, of
> > >>> course, restart KDE so the sound engine can load the codecs.
> > >> after reinstallation of kubuntu-restricted-extras the browser tell me:
> > >> xine-plugin: no mrl found in playlist
> > >>
> > > 
> > > The picture is one of mixed success: If I try to play BBC World Radio in 
> > > Firefox or Arora I get the above error and nothing but silence. The 
> > > media selector also claims I have Realplayer but not Windows Media 
> > > installed.

Oh yeah, here's the URL for BBC's install for Linux. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/install/
If you're running 64bit, then you'll want to read the notes. Ric





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