Re: [Sheflug] Debian and the BBC

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Warburton wrote:
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> 
> 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).

Did all the codec stuff:

And finally I removed totem-xine - which removes 
gnome-desktop-environment, restarted iceweasel 
(???whyohwhydidtheydothat???) and RealPlayer came up at working but 
really crap quality.  The worst I have seen in a long while but this is 
a busy time of day on t'Internet.  And at least it is working.  I have 
no idea why.
> 
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> 
> 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).
> 
Thanks for this tip Chris.

Regards

L.


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