[ubuntu-uk] Firefox and BBC video clips

[Lee Tambiah]

I usually use the Firefox Media connectivity plugin, this usually works for
most things. You can configure it so it responds to different medias. Where
you have embedded media it will put a black box which you can click, that
will then open the media player that you have configured and your away.

Of course the real problem is the fact the BBC are using proprietry closed
formats to transmit there media, they would argue it protects there content,
but thats complete rubbish because I can pull any of there streams using an
mplayer command and dump the stream into a file to play as many times as I
want! So thats how good the protection is, but don't tell them you can do
that ;-)...

Regards

Lee


On 4/17/07, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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