[Bug 116511] BBC news videos launch three embedded kmplayers

[Paul Worrall]

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When trying to view any of the videos on http://news.bbc.co.uk, the popup window for the BBC News Player contains what looks like three partially overlapping instances of embedded kmplayer. The sound from each one plays a fraction of a second out of sync making it difficult to understand. I have chosen the real player option on the BBC website and kmplayer is set to use the Xine movie player. I have installed the w32codecs package.
Doing some investigation, I have found that:
 1. Disabling Javascript is a workaround - I get only one embedded kmplayer in the same window (i.e. not a popup), but there is other stuff on news.bbc.co.uk that requires Javascript so this is not an ideal fix.
 2. Configuring kmplayer to use mplayer gives three mplayers but each in their own windows
 3. Choosing the "windows media player" option (via the 'preferences' links on the BBC News Player) does not play with either Xine or MPlayer backends
I am using a recent fresh installation of Kubuntu feisty, and the problem was not solved by updating KDE to 3.5.7.  I also see a similar effect using the Kubuntu 7.04 live CD.

** Affects: kmplayer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Kubuntu Team
         Status: New

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BBC news videos launch three embedded kmplayers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116511