Ubuntu and streamed WMA/RA files in Firefox

[John K Masters]

On 12:04 Sat 17 May     , Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> The BBC streams sports off its website using Windows Media and Real
> Audio formats (no streaming ogg? boo hiss). I should have thought about
> this before the 1st test match between England NZ at Lord's started, but
> the last time I followed cricket over the 'net it was on my WinXP music
> studio machine.
> 
> I'm using Mozilla Firefox 3 on Hardy Heron. How do I get to hear
> either/both of these formats in the browser. Or failing that, how do I
> get to hear them in a standalone player. I presume I need to install the
> codecs. I can d/l Real Player 8 for Linux and take a stab at that, or
> play the stream inside my Virtualbox WinXp setup, but I really rather
> not do either of those things if there's a more sensible way to solve my
> problem.

apt-get (or aptitude) install w32codecs mozplugger mplayer
mozilla-mplayer

The above all on one line. 

This should work. It is how I did it on Gutsy/FF2 and I can still get
the BBC streams after updating to Hardy/FF3

Regards, John
-- 
I wish I was young enough to know everything.
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