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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 19:09:58 +0000 Peter Lloyd-Jones <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I use real player and ubuntu. I find that to watch the clips I must > download the .ram file onto my desktop, and open with real player. > However I feel I must be able to "make it happen" directly from > Firefox. > > Peter > On my Debian systems, I use mplayer (with the w32codecs and LiveMedia libraries from Debian-Multimedia). Sometimes it can be a bit of a fiddle getting it to play the .ram file, but as the .ram file is (usually) only a text file with an RTSP uri as its contents, it's not hard to get it to play nicely. Indeed, for a while I had my fileserver set up to 'archive' the Radio 1 Rock Show as MP3s so I could listen to them in the car later. ;) --Grant -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html