[wellylug] Streaming Audio and Video

[Cliff Pratt]

I've been having problems with streaming audio and video in a browser.

I use Ubuntu Breezy Badger, Firefox as browser. What I basically want to 
do is listen to streamed audio from online radio stations and I'm 
basically having little success.

Basically, I select an audio or video stream and up pops a box asking me 
what I would like to use to play the stream. The only thin in the box is 
totem, so I select that and a popup appears that says "Totem could not 
play fd://0" and suggests that I get the appropriate plugin. OK, it 
might be nice if it gave me some hints.

So, I decided to leave that for a while, and downloaded and installed 
RealPlayer 10. Now, say I want to play a clip, say Ice Age II so I click 
on the link and it asks what to use. The only option is FireFox. So I 
click on it and a page comes up with the URL of the .ram file on it. I 
can cut and paste this into RealPlayer and it works, pretty much. I've 
checked that the RP plugin is installed correctly.

Has anyone any idea how I can make some progress with these problems?

Cheers,

Cliff

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