[ubuntu-uk] Firefox and BBC video clips

[Alan Pope]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:23:42AM +0100, Andrew Barber wrote:
> 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.

I don't think it's appropriate to put something inside that window. They do 
have a help page which details how to play Real content on various 
platforms. That page already mentions Unix/Linux, but of course suggests 
installing Real.

I guess the tricky thing is that each distro is slightly different. You 
can't just say "use mplayer, off you go, sort yourself out" to the kind of 
audience the BBC has.

Maybe if someone came up with a coherent set of instructions for each of the 
major distros on how to make mplayer work, and submitted that to the BBC, 
they might be more inclined to modify their FAQ page.

Cheers,
Al.