On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 17:38 +, Mark Fraser wrote:
> I've just done a package update and found I had 2 updates for Skype. When I
> loaded it I noticed it was version 2.0 (beta), which means webcam support :)
> Tried it with my Logitech webcam and it detects it, just need to do a live
> test
Alan Pope:
> Hi Mac,
>> Alan Pope wrote:
>>> deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
>> deb http://archive.canonical.com/ gutsy partner
> Try each and see what happens?
With *both* enabled, neither realplay nor realplayer are real packages.
(Damn lying brand names.)
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Chris Rowson:
> Meh lightweights
>
> My first forage into computing in the 1800's was much more hardcore.
> You don't know you're born!
>
> I would often be called to the analytical machine late at night,
> because a tiny misalignment of a brass cog had caused it to render an
> ascii image of
Pete Stean:
> I have the firefox plugin for xine, and helix player, and the .ram
> stream is working fine for me - you really don't want to clutter up
> your system with realplayer if you can possibly avoid it.
Actually I do, if I can't get Real streams to play in Totem —
RealPlayer's UI is actua
norman:
> I remember
> trying to get to grips with programming in Basic and the difficulty I
> had in accepting that you could have a line which read 'Let n = 2' and
> then, a little further on,'Let n = 10'. In algebra if I wrote n = 2 then
> that was that, it didn't change half way through solving
Kris Marsh:
> Try:
>
> mplayer -playlist
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/bb/rm/video/news24_bb.ram
Aha — that gives me the *sound*, but not the video. Running that and
then pressing Ctrl+C to stop it gives this:
http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/484
in the terminal.
In any case, I th
Sean Miller:
> I'm sure it's all working for me in mplayer... unless it's something
> else you're referring to... the BBC Website Realaudio streams?
>
> Sean
>
The stream I'm trying is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/bb/rm/video/news24_bb.ram
which redirects to an RTSP stream.
Tha
taufanlubis:
> Yes, you can install realplayer, because it's available for linux.
> But, I suggest to use VLC, you can run almost all multimedia types with it.
> Just download:
> $sudo apt-get install vlc
VLC doesn't seem to want to play it. I just get the error “Unable to
open 'rtsp://'”.
(Besi
Kris Douglas:
> Currently I don't think the Totem player supports RTSP. You may have to
> install RealPlayer...
So that's possible in Gutsy then? I can't find it in Add/Remove or Synaptic.
Though Helix Player claims to support RTSP, it doesn't: “This player
does not have the capabilities to pla
Dougie Richardson:
> This came up on answers -
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/16519
That's not *quite* the same thing: BBC Radio is audio, for which I use
Amarok; BBC News 24 is video, which Amarok doesn't support.
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Is it possible to play RealMedia video streams in Gutsy? I'm thinking
primarily of the BBC News 24 stream.
Ideally I'd like to play them in Totem, but installing RealPlayer would
be OK too (they really should call it something else — the name
“RealPlayer” is tainted by the abomination that is t
Matthew Larsen:
>> Surely a LolCats style caption competition is needed?
>
> no. no it really isnt. :s
>
>
Nonetheless, i can haz freedum?
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Do we automatically get these updates in Gutsy? Or do -proposed and/or
-backports have to be turned on?
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Stephen Garton:
> On The last tab (Emails) the Enable Evolution email indexing
> is enabled and checked. I don't use Evolution, I use Thunderbird, but
> the option to check the check box is disabled.
Same here.
I noticed that Thunderbird has gone from being a package called
“mozilla-thunderbird”
When trying to download the CD image from
http://torrent.ubuntu.com/simple/gutsy/desktop/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
the BitTorrent client immediately complains: “Problem connecting to
tracker” and “urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')”.
Is this simply because the load on the ser
* “Ubuntu: upgrade your computer twice a year, for free, forever”
* “Ubuntu: makes your computer work properly”
* “Ubuntu: it's your choice, dammit!”
* “Ubuntu: hippies make good software”
* “Ubuntu: commies make good software”
We're probably gonna have to advertise negatively against Windows,
be
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