Uwe, Thanks. That helps quite a bit.If I can't get it working following the other suggestions, I may just wait until April for the beta test for the teachers in whose classrooms I wanted to initially roll it out.
Simon, thanks also for your suggestions. Still couldn't get quicktime to work correctly with the files. I think I just have tinkered with it too much; when I try to play something now, I just get a "no video" message. I wiped the partition on one of the computers and started a fresh install last night before I left work. Given what Uwe said, I think I may just wait until April before I do anything else with it though. Thanks, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Uwe Geercken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 3:32 AM Subject: Re: Help for a Linux Newbie With Video (Edubuntu - Edgy Edge) > hi mike, > > let me add one thing to it, that you might not have heard of by now. with > the > next version of ubuntu - which will be out in april - there will be new > functionality available of how to install support for multimedia formats. > > there was obviously a big discission about it (because it is partly > proprietary > software) but fact is that there will be an easy one-klick way to install > e.g. > codecs and other multimedia features. > > hope that helps. > > rgds, > > uwe > > Zitat von Mike Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi, >> I am testing Edubuntu for use in individual classrooms at our school. We >> have some older computers tasked for use in individual classrooms (Cel >> and P3 >> 500 - 700 w/ 192 - 256 MB) that I think this would be a perfect solution >> for. >> I really like the interface and features for classroom use; however, I >> am >> running into a problem that is beyond my very limited knowledge of how >> Linux >> works. I aim to get smarter about using Linux this summer (the file >> system, >> compiling, etc), but for right now, I just need to get this working >> before >> the end of the week. >> >> We use Discovery's United Streaming in our school. United Streaming >> allows >> for the viewing of its many videos in either Windows Media .asf format or >> Quicktime format. I have used United Streaming without issue on Windows >> machines (using IE, Firefox 2, and Opera). I have also used it on a >> student's Mac laptop (not sure of the browser) without issue. >> >> Using edubuntu, I cannot get the videos to play correctly -- either in >> Quicktime or Windows Media player advanced streaming (.asf) format. I >> have >> played around with pretty much all of the packages available in >> add/remove >> programs option and the synaptics package manager. >> >> >> I have tried installing the mplayer and its associated Mozilla plug-in to >> no >> avail. >> >> If I use the default GStreamer, I can't get any videos to play. Without >> using the "ugly" plug-in, I get an error that Totem can't play the >> Windows >> Media 9 files without the proper plug-in. If I apply the gstreamer >> "ugly" >> codec, the movie will appear to play, and I get audio, but I can't get >> video. >> Quicktime files also do not work when using gstreamer. >> >> If I install Xine (as well as the Xine media codec plug-in), my Firefox >> defaults to using Totem with Xine. If I do this some.asf videos will >> play, >> but they have a ton of corruption in the playback. Some Quicktime videos >> will also play, but they too have corruption (negative colors, >> embossing, a >> lot of severe tearing, what appears to be pretty bad compression errors). >> >> I have tried this on three separate computers (a Dell Inspiron laptop w/ >> a >> dual core 2.0 GHz CPU and 1 GB of memory, a desktop with a P4 2 and 512MB >> of >> memory, and a P3 700 with 256MB of memory), and I can't make it work on >> any >> of them. >> >> This is the first time I've dipped my toe in the Linux waters; it's been >> a >> while since something computer-related has left me feeling this ignorant. >> I've selected so many different options within the Add/Remove and >> Synaptics >> package managers, that I'm wondering if I've caused some kind of >> corruption >> (although the system prompts me that it will remove conflicting packages >> as >> necessary). If someone can tell me exactly which packages to install >> from >> the get-go to get the video working, I'd be happy to wipe the partition >> that >> I have edubuntu on and start from scratch to get it working. >> >> I'm also having trouble getting the wireless to work and changing the >> Grub so >> it defaults to booting to Windows instead of linux if I don't make a >> choice >> in time (both on the Dell), but the issue of being able to seamlessly >> play >> the videos in the browser are much more pressing. >> >> Thanks for any help that folks can provide! >> >> Mike >> >> Mike Camden >> Technology Director >> Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy >> 304-233-3771 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.mountdechantal.org > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
