alan c wrote: > 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
Aah! progress of a sort. I have continued to follow suggestions and follow links fairly exhaustively, to no apparent success, (I am back with mplayer now also) until I started changing the Configure settings obtained by right clicking onto the video window inside the firefox mplayer plugin window when the window was active: mplayer-in configuration. The first field was seen to be empty, and I found that a setting option of gl (lower case GL) worked, I had also chosen Audio Output as alsa (it had not been this previously) I had also just previously followed advice in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=540412 although the only item I believe helped me was the suggestion to examine and change the mplayer-in configuration. I am most grateful for responses, thank you, I will continue to follow them tomorrow, (I have to go just now). -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
