media players and browser plugins, KDE 4.3

[O. Sinclair]

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.
>>>
>>> If I try Konqueror I get "sent off" to Kaffeine and there it works.
>>>
>>> If I instead try Swedish Radio on www.sr.se all works as expected and 
>>> both formats are reported as existing...
>>>
>> added the links if anyone cares to try
>> BBC World Services:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/internet/wsradio_today.shtml
> 
> They work for me in Firefox using the mplayer plugin. Make sure you have medibuntu repositories enabled and install mozilla-mplayer, w32-codecs, and kubuntu-restricted-extras. Make sure your BBC preferences are set to use RealPlayer as it doesn't seem to work with Windows Media streaming. 
> 
> With the mplayer plugin you have to wait several seconds for it to buffer before it will start playing, this has caught me out in the past. If you have flash and the mplayer plugin installed I've not found a single website that doesn't work in Firefox. Konqueror is another matter, but  I never use it so I can't comment.
> 
> As it seems you have the xine plugin installed, you may have to remove that to stop it trying to play streams that are better handled by mplayer.
> 
this works for Firefox for sure. Arora browser now crashes spectularly 
when I try to access BBC. Konqueror opens a player but nothing happens. 
Swedish Radio works in all 3... but it did with Xine too.

Weird - BBC must have some really strange stream for their live radio