Sound and updates on Kubutnu Hardy

[Lisi Reisz]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 15:03:21 Jonas Norlander wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz at gmail.com> wrote:

> > The radio is asking for realplayer.  This does not seem to be in the
> > repositories I have got enabled.
> >
> > Which repository is it in?  Or would I do better to get the tarball or
> > deb (if there is one)?

>
> Realplayer is in the medibuntu repository if you want to use it. What
> kind of sound are you trying to play that wants realplayer? It could
> be that it is the file bindings that got swapped to another program
> (happend for me sometimes). Look in System Settings->Advanced
> tab->Filebindings and move the order of the programs to what you
> prefered for the kind of file you want to play.

Have tried the file associations - that was not it!  Nothing was asking for 
Realplayer, it was all open source.  I don't know what file type is involved, 
but something audio-visual.  It is what is needed to use the BBC iPlayer.  It 
has been asking for Realplayer.

I had been having the same problem on my own Debian Lenny box, so I went over 
to it to fiddle around there a bit.  Blow me, after the last update iPlayer 
is working.

Perhaps the solution in Kubuntu is to tell the owner to wait for an update to 
put everything right again??!

Thanks
Lisi