[ubuntu-uk] NASA TV

[Alan Pope]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:31:51PM +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
> My mother wants to watch the shuttle launch tomorrow. She has feisty
> with all updates and has VLC and the VLC plug in installed along with
> w32codecs, but when she tries to watch NASA TV it comes up with message
> about the browser not having the right plugins! The message comes from
> the NASA WEB site, so I guess there must be some checking happening that
> is not working. It did work briefly, but I think NASA may have changed
> some things in the last day or so.
> 
> Anyone else got this problem and/or found a fix?
> 

You didnt provide a URL, so I googled and assume this is what you're talking 
about?

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

I just tried visiting this (albeit not in Ubuntu) on a brand new Asus Eee PC 
running Xandros and it Just Works. Worth noting that it uses mplayer with 
the mplayer mozilla plugin (which I do indeed also use under Ubuntu), so 
would assume it will work on my Ubuntu laptop too).

I would use the package manager to install the mozila-mplayer package. 
Interestingly I also use this package to play real media based streams such 
as the BBC, and again, it Just Works.

Cheers,
Al.