Has she tried opening the streaming URL directly from Mplayer rather than relying on the browser plug-in?  Sometimes that works... . Also, this is the full URL on the link button... javascript:GetSelectedChannel(' <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx','http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram','http://www.nasa.gov/qtl/151335main_NASA_TV_QT.qtl'">http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx','http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram','http://www.nasa.gov/qtl/151335main_NASA_TV_QT.qtl' </a>) ...that implies that there are several streams... <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx">http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx</a>   // windows media? <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/qtl/151335main_NASA_TV_QT.qtl"> http://www.nasa.gov/qtl/151335main_NASA_TV_QT.qtl</a>     // quicktime? <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram">http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram</a>               // real video? Sean <div>On 12/6/07, Alan Pope <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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? <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/">http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/</a> 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. -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk </a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div>