[ubuntu-uk] NASA TV

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Alan Pope wrote:
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> 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.


Yes, that link just works for me with a similar Firefox set-up running 
in Feisty (though the connection at this time of the morning is not 
wonderful, and the stream takes a while to buffer and get the sound and 
video in sync properly.)

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