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Re: [Sheflug] Debian and the BBC

Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Lesley
> 
>> I used to be able to either watch the video's available on the BBC
>> News website or listen to radio programmes or parts thereof using
>> Firefox and RealPlayer in SuSE.
> 
> Try dropping this into your /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> #  Multimedia stuff
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
> # Backports
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib 
> non-free
> # Debian volatile for Clamav and similar issues
> deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main 
> contrib non-free
> ### Opera Browser ###
> deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ etch non-free
> 
> Then run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade.  Then try to install the 
> appropriate libraries which aren't there just now.  Do 'apt-cache 
> search video' look at the libraries and other things in there.  
> Also 'apt-cache search sound'.  Then do 'apt-get install w32codecs'.  
> After that go to...
> 
> http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions
> 
> and do 'apt-get -t etch-backports install openoffice.org'.  That 
> should give you OpenOffice 2.2.
> 
> Hope that helps :)
> 
> 
> 
Tried all that ... got both kaffeine and realplayer installed and 
kaffeine plays DVD's, CD's and MP3 tracks ok.

However I get

xine: cannot find input plugin for MRL 
[rtsp://rmgeo.bbc.net.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/science_nature/video/94000/bb/94943_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"&copyright=";(C) 
British Broadcasting Corporation"]

when I try to play any BBC video footage via kaffeine.  From which I 
deduce I am missing a library of some sort.  Any suggestions as to which 
that might be?

Totem Movie Player reports a similar error : "There is no input plugin 
to handle the location of this movie"

BBC video footage simply doesn't run in a firefox encapsulated 
realplayer or a standalone realplayer process.  I have had the former 
problem in Firefox with realplayer and the BBC but was always able to 
view via the standalone realplayer.

BBC Radio 4 plays okay in Firefox and kaffeine.

Regards

Lesley
Regards

L.




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