[ubuntu-uk] Firefox and BBC video clips

[Andrew Barber]

On 17/04/07, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:58:30PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> > Or is there a way to play real audio and video without the non-free
> > realplayer?
> >
>
> Yes, I dont have realplayer installed at all, I watch BBC programmes using
> mplayer mozilla plugin. It works in much the same way as realplayer - the
> little box pops up when you click video on the bbc website and the video
> plays in it. It just works.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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Would it be worth emailing somebody in the BBC and telling them to
maybe add a link to their window on what you need to run video on
GNU/Linux.
For instance "GNU/Linux users please click here", then a page
detailing one way of playing them. Mplayer would be the best advice as
it is FOSS.

-- 
Andrew Alexander Barber