[ubuntu-uk] Firefox and BBC video clips

[Alan Pope]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:02:27PM +0100, Stephen Garton wrote:
> On 17/04/07, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> [Snip]
> > 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.
> >
> 
> At the risk of taking this Off-Topic, how do you tell firefox which
> plugin to use? Mine has defaulted to using the totem plugin, which I
> find less than useless most of the time. At the moment I use the
> 'Download Embedded' Firefox plugin to save the files locally (not
> tried this with BBC content)
> 

Very easily. I removed the totem-mozilla plugin, and installed 
mozilla-mplayer. Job done.

Cheers,
Al.