Sorry if I am making a nuisance of myself, but what seemed to be a solved problem in Hardy is once again a problem in my freshly installed from scratch Karmic.
I am trying to play televised streams from the Norwegian and Icelandic national broadcasting companies. In Hardy, Mozilla will not play them, but from Mozilla, I can copy the URLs to VLC or KMPLAYER, they are able to handle them. Not so in Karmic. I also tried copying the links from Konqueror, with no better luck. It seems the url cannot be resolved by either of the players anymore.
I took approx the same steps that seemed to work for Hardy, except that I now used Gecko (default) instead of Mozilla mplayer plugin:
(Following guidelines on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu) : Medibuntu
(Following guidelines on http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Karmic) :
repos: Libdvdcss2
repos: w32codecs
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg (video / audio conversion)
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install smplayer
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse
repos: kmplayer
repos: Gecko-mediaplayer
When I checked Software Management I saw that plugins-bad, plugins-ugly and gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg were now all installed.
I also have mplayer gnome, for some reason.
So what have I done wrong? I also tried copying the links from Konqueror, with no better luck.
E.g.
http://dagskra.ruv.is/sjonvarpid/streymi/4513225/
It would appear that none of the players are able to resolve the url.
In Hardy VLC resolves it to: mms://http.0.muli.rs.ruv.is/video.ruv.is/4513225$1.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
Anybody out there??
Other than that, I have been playing around with Karmic for the last 10 waking hours and I am pretty impressed. There are a few things I have had to look for (because they are not where they were with KDE 3.5), but on the whole the system seems stable and efficient. Nevertheless, being unable to watch news broadcasts will mean I shall have to revert to Hardy, which is sitting on another partition. (I have faithfully followed the Grub discussions on this site
I am trying to play televised streams from the Norwegian and Icelandic national broadcasting companies. In Hardy, Mozilla will not play them, but from Mozilla, I can copy the URLs to VLC or KMPLAYER, they are able to handle them. Not so in Karmic. I also tried copying the links from Konqueror, with no better luck. It seems the url cannot be resolved by either of the players anymore.
I took approx the same steps that seemed to work for Hardy, except that I now used Gecko (default) instead of Mozilla mplayer plugin:
(Following guidelines on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu) : Medibuntu
(Following guidelines on http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Karmic) :
repos: Libdvdcss2
repos: w32codecs
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg (video / audio conversion)
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install smplayer
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse
repos: kmplayer
repos: Gecko-mediaplayer
When I checked Software Management I saw that plugins-bad, plugins-ugly and gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg were now all installed.
I also have mplayer gnome, for some reason.
So what have I done wrong? I also tried copying the links from Konqueror, with no better luck.
E.g.
http://dagskra.ruv.is/sjonvarpid/streymi/4513225/
It would appear that none of the players are able to resolve the url.
In Hardy VLC resolves it to: mms://http.0.muli.rs.ruv.is/video.ruv.is/4513225$1.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
Anybody out there??
Other than that, I have been playing around with Karmic for the last 10 waking hours and I am pretty impressed. There are a few things I have had to look for (because they are not where they were with KDE 3.5), but on the whole the system seems stable and efficient. Nevertheless, being unable to watch news broadcasts will mean I shall have to revert to Hardy, which is sitting on another partition. (I have faithfully followed the Grub discussions on this site
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