Kris, Kris Marsh wrote: > I get the same thing occasionally, and fix it by hitting the play > button until it works :-)
I wasn't persistent enough obviously! I was expecting it to just work on Linux Mint. On gutsy, I found a solution with totem-gstreamer. The first time, nothing shows, so I right click and select play in own window. Totem then pops up and says 'you need a codec for this, so you want to search for one?' I go through all that and it then all works, even in the embedded player. Regards, Tony. > On 11/11/07, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Chris, >> >> Chris Rowson wrote: >>>>> Anyway, that's a nice job you did there, when it comes to people doing >>>>> as you said, "word processing and email" Ubuntu really sticks out as a >>>>> green light, mainly because of how suitable it is for that, not all pc's >>>>> are for the power user *cough Slackware *cough* and it's nice to see >>>>> someone that is finding Ubuntu a comfortable distro to use. >>>>> >>> I recently tested Linux Mint (basically Ubuntu with gnome-main-menu >>> and all the codecs preinstalled) on a non-techie user (my other half >>> in fact). >> I tried Mint recently in a virtual machine on my desktop. I had problems >> watching NASA TV (it was during the recent shuttle mission). It would >> start up, make the connection and then stop playing. Looks like it was >> using mplayer to do all this. I had the same problem with mplayer on >> gutsy. Did you ever try this and have any success? >> >> Regards, >> Tony. >> -- >> Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, >> IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. >> T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 >> E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >> > -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
