linux.gentoo.user

On Sunday 10 February 2008 01:04:28 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> On Sunday 10 February 2008 15:00:38 Ian Lee wrote:
> > Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> > > Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo?
> > >
> > > I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view
> > > videos, either with the embedded player or the standalone.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> >
> > It's a flash based player mplayer wont work
>
> I can watch the videos without any problem with konqueror, it appears to
> launch an embeded version of kmplayer.
> Saludos
> Matt

That makes sense as it's the "kde frontend" for mplayer. I had some real=20
problems with kmplayer and mplayer not playing nice. Kmplayer was sending=20
commandline parameters that the latest versions of mplayer didn't understan=
d. =20
Try the realplayer plugin ans see if it works.

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=46rom the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride
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