Realplayer and BBC

wibbleypants · 11-16-2008, 08:10 AM

Ok. I want to listen to live bbc broadcasts via a browser. The bbc site says 1st you must install realplayer. So off I go and install realplayer following the link provided. Try again. BBC site says you must install realplayer. I've tried with ubuntu and puppy with the same result. On my XP box it works just fine.

To reproduce this, just go to http://bbc.co.uk/radio2 from a linux box.

pwc101 · 11-16-2008, 08:16 AM

Try installing the mplayerplug-in. It should be available in whichever distro-you-use's package manager (Synaptic for Ubuntu, don't know for Puppy).

It should then stream the radio for you.

wibbleypants · 11-20-2008, 02:21 PM

Tried the mplayer plugin on Ubuntu and now instead of saying I don't have the plugin it justs sits there forever doing nothing. Haven't tried it with Puppy yet.

pwc101 · 11-21-2008, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by wibbleypants

Tried the mplayer plugin on Ubuntu and now instead of saying I don't have the plugin it justs sits there forever doing nothing.

I get that sometimes too. If I just refresh the page, it often works fine thereafter. Other times though, it doesn't.