[wellylug] Streaming Audio and Video

[Nathan Cook]

Try this:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=80295&highlight=media+plugins I
used it on my Kubuntu install and it worked very well!

On 4/28/06, Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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