I have a love hate relationship with BBC stuff. I love having it available but hate it when things go wrong.....
I have just moved to a new machine with a sort of new install of 7.10 and have unfortunately reached a status of finding bbc/click video http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/default.stm is not now playing. Annoying because during the general setting up and installing stuff I need, bbc/click did work at one stage of the proceedings. I prefer to use firefox, mplayer, and as far as I can see things are almost working but not quite. a click on the 'watch now' button opens a mplayer plugin window, information text says it is 'buffering', then says it is connecting to a specific server, then buffering a specific rm stream and the progress bar appears to indicate the extent of buffering. It gets to approximately 10 or 15 percent and lingers, then, after a little more time, the status changes to 'Stopped', the progress bar replaced by the start, pause, stop buttons within the mplayer plugin window. It is as if mplayer plugin in firefox is not starting to display successfully. A similar sequence happens if I choose the 'launch in stand alone player' To preserve my sanity I am glad to have another machine with 7.10, which runs a similar configuration (successfully) as it always did, I am aware of ============= Add the medibuntu repo as per these instructions - this is so you can install the necessary codecs. http://www.medibuntu.org/repository.php sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove totem-mozilla sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer w32codecs ============= and I believe I have done these actions. however I was also, at an early stage, adding the packages (add/remove programs)(kubuntu if is makes a difference) kubuntu restricted extras, and ubuntu restricted extras (both desktops are on this machine). Later these were removed the same way during trouble shooting. Variously I have uninstalled mplayer and plugin, firefox, and manually deleted its config files, reinstalled .... I did not keep a close tally on all of it. Maybe I missed something. Anyhow, bbc click carries on doing, and not doing, the same things! I have also done some looking around in synaptic, removing anything I thought might be causing a problem. Ultimately I am possibly going to have to reinstall just to get a clean mplayer firefox bbc situation, however, it would be really great if I could find out what was going on and put it right! comments most welcomed -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
