Andy <[email protected]> wrote at 17:43 on 2009-05-28: > 2009/5/28 Andy <[email protected]>: > > FF claims it know about Real Player as a plugin, however I don't have > > 'hxplay' or 'realplay' in the system path. Is the BBC player looking > > for the specific binaries instead of a plugin? > > Still not sure why the Beeb require on Real Player though. > If it helps you can look through the source of the iplayer page, find > the .ram url and play it in totem media player. Far from ideal, but it > works. And it doesn't require proprietary realplayer.
IIRC the mozilla-mplayer package, combined with w32codecs from medibuntu allowed the old Real-based Listen Again stuff to work nicely for me, without having to import the full steaming pile of Realnetworks onto my machine. S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
