On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 11:31 +0100, Ted wrote: > A friend has been using a computer I installed Feisty on and asked me to > install it on his.. > I installed it but cannot get mplayer or realplayer to work..When I > goto the bbc news and lick on a vid mplayer starts to connect and the > tells me "stopped" If I alter preferences to use realplayer > f/fox crashes with no error messages...If I try Konq it too crashes...I > have tried using automatix > on a clean install to get the codecs etc but still no joy..It will play > vids and youtube clips though.. > I have also tried using pclinuxos and Mepis but all show the same > symptoms.... > I am running out of ideas and he is thinking abt going back to win 2k > Any ideas appreciated... > Regards > Ted Wager > Linux user.. >
first step, remove anything automatix has done, it just causes problems, breaks systems and gives support people a big headache. not supported and please do not use it :). Second step, e-mail the bbc to compain about their web service being bias towards propiatary systems when we have free formats available for them to use :) typically at the bottom of a video stream it has 'open in a standalone player' you could try copying that link into a standalone realplayer and playing from there. -- -- Gord ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
