Hello!
I was able to watch it with the Firefox's extension Media Player
Connectivity and the Real Player plugin:
http://www.real.com/linux/?rppr=rnwk&src=040104freeplayer
I hope it works for you.
Cheers!
On Ter, 2007-01-09 at 00:38 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I have been trying to watch a video on the following site:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
>
> If you go on there and click on a video clip you get a little firefox AV
> window. The black box and some boxes with arrows appear to play the clip
> but the clip refuses to start.
>
> Javascipt etc is enabled. I don't think I have a kill the pop ups off
> setting in the browser that could mess things up....
>
> I also tried firing up totem movie player to see if it would help. Excuse
> my ignorance but is it the free alternative to real player?
>
> It can't seem to find the real player files on the web page. You can get
> the web page to look for a Windows media player file instead of a real
> player format file. If you do this then totem movie player says it can't
> read the file type and so you need another plug in.....
>
> What plug in might this be?
>
> In my earlier posting I had thought to try to download real player for linux
> but if other free alternatives are actually better then perhaps I should try
> to use them instead.....
>
> Comments appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Fothergill
>
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