[wellylug] TVNZ Olympic coverage online

[Simon Smith]

VLC certainly seems to work more reliably, but I guess it's up to each user
to decide if they want proprietary format support bundled with the player...
having totem as the default allows each user the choice. Personally I use
VLC, as I have plenty of media that I've received from various sources in
various non-free formats and I also still use multiple OS's, so I like being
able to use the same player easily cross-platform.


2008/8/15 Rimu Atkinson <rimuatkinson at gmail.com>

>  Yeah I don't understand why totem is the default media player in ubuntu,
> it fails. VLC works way more often, although is less user friendly.
>
> R
>
> Cliff Pratt wrote:
>
> michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:
>
>
>  Nathan Cook writes:
>
>
>  Has anyone been able to view the coverage online from http://www.tvnz.co.nz/olympics
>
>  Sure have, I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and the totem plugin works fine.  You
> might want to try using vlc directly, though; seehttp://halfpie.net/article/819/tvnzs-streaming-urls-for-the-olympic-games
> for more details.
>
>
>
>  '... totem plugin works fine.'  Not on my machine! Either used directly
> or as a plugin I find it to be next to useless! It will load but not
> play, play but stop, play only the video, play only the audio, and just
> generally misbehave. It might play something and then not play anything
> else unless you shut it down and restart it. I've been looking for
> alternatives for ages.
>
> Is it just me?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
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