Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard (MQ) wrote:
> Dave Plater wrote:
>
>   
> > I banned Real from my system, way back when, when I saw what it did to
> > and with my windows 98se system.
> >     
>
> Many of us in England would like to, but our (generally) great BBC has
> chosen to supply its huge volume of 'listen again' and live feeds only
> in Real and/or MS formats. To access them from a browser is just too
> painful unless via the RealPlayer mozilla plug-in - the only reason I
> have it installed. As someone else on this thread noted, at least the
> Linux version is rather less invasive than that for MS.
>
> My only issue with dropping it is how we present this to a new user when
> they try to follow a link like these BBC ones - if we can catch it and
> suggest that they head over to Real's site to get and install the RPM
> I'm not too unhappy. Just a bald error message is *NOT* good enough for
> something like this.
>
> Further, and maybe veering OT, I know that other players (e.g. Kaffeine)
> can utilise the codecs, but it's a real fiddle to acquire the relevant
> URL to hand to them from e.g. the BBC 'listen again' pages. Unless
> anyone knows something I don't?
>
> BTW - the Kaffeine plug-in breaks the RealPlayer one if both are installed!
>   
I don't do much video browsing but I've never had a problem with
libxine1 and w32codec-all.
Regards
Dave P

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