Sound and updates on Kubutnu Hardy

Nigel Henry cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr
Wed Apr 1 16:58:27 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 01 April 2009 17:06, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 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

Hi Lisi.

I'm listening to BBC radio at the moment. As I'm on dialup, and have a whole 
bunch of distros installed, I normally download the latest RealPlayer binary 
from their site, and use it to update RealPlayer on my various distros.

I listen to Internet radio, either using Opera, or Firefox. You can also 
install mplayerplug-in, mozilla-mplayer, or gecko-mediaplayer, which provide 
a bunch of plugins for use in Firefox, including the realplayer plugin (but 
it may not be the latest version of realplayer) .

All the best.

Nigel.






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