Re: [Sheflug] Debian and the BBC

[Chris Warburton <chriswarbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:05 +0100, Lesley Binks wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 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.
> 
> I'm having trouble replicating this capability under Debian using 'Movie 
> Player'.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a solution?
> 
> regards
> 
> Lesley

I always find that gstreamer-plaugins-xyz are the first option, second
option being xine (maybe libxine-extracodecs or similar, make sure
totem-xine is installed rather than totem-gstreamer if you want to use
use the Xine engine in "Movie Player" (totem), and vice versa for the
Gstreamer engine. If that doesn't work I would get the w32codecs package
(only available for x86 though), and if THAT doesn't work then I would
find a massive archive of Windows codecs through Google, change the
group of everything in WINE's fake C:/Windows/System32 folder to
something like root then install said Windows codec pack through WINE
and look in its System32 folder for files which do NOT have the group
root (or whatever the existing files were set to) and move them
into /usr/lib/codecs (although this will only work on x86).

If THAT doesn't work then I start Googling for the same video in a
different format.

Hope it helps,
Chris

PS: I watch Click through the BBC in realplayer format, but to stop
buffering and stuff I use streamripper to save the video locally. To do
this just install streamripper (should be in an identically named
package in Debian) then run "streamripper $(cat
realplayer_file_to_save.rm)" and it should save the realplayer video to
" - .mp3" in a new folder, maybe called "incomplete" (but if you wait
for it to start getting the file a second time then you know it will
have it all).


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