[ubuntu-uk] Firefox and BBC video clips

alan c aeclist at candt.waitrose.com
Tue Apr 17 14:17:01 BST 2007


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)

There is a directory which contains mozilla (firefox) plugins, not 
sure which it is just now. The package manager install/uninstall 
process will populate that specific directory I think.

-- 
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391



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