[ubuntu-uk] NASA TV

[Tony Arnold]

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?

Thanks for all the responses.

I've put a launcher on the desktop that invokes VLC with one of the URLs
highlighted by Sean. That plays very nicely so I guess there is some
kind of plug-in problem on Firefox.

My mother can watch the launch tonight though!

Regards,
Tony.
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