Re: Video players, plugins, Firefox and 64 bit
Alan Cox wrote:
Actually they hired a former microsoft senior exec from the
microsoft
windows media people. That aside the BBC does usually go to some lengths
to try and keep good cross platform support as befits its state funding
and constitution.
>From the UK (the BBC site non UK is somewhat different as they have to
keep some of the video content UK only to keep the owners happy, or so
they can sell it to you ;)) it seems to just work for me both with
realplayer and the realvideo feeds and with mplayer and the windows media
stuff.
Like many others, I can watch BBC News videos with my F7 64-bit desktop.
However, there apparently *is* a difference btw. UK and non-UK customers
in that earlier (2 weeks ago) only low-quality (~34 kb/s) video streams
were available for my location (in Finland).
Connecting to BBC News with FF-32 and a stand-alone RealPlayer 10, I was
now offered a choice btw. 'broadband' and 'standard'. Choosing broadband
I got a better-quality (224 kb/s) picture, but there were many 'freezes'
even in the one-minute World News video - just like watching someone on
a satellite videophone. These freezes were apparent on other videos as
well.
This is beside the point, however. BBC News videos *can* be watched with
Fedora 7, Firefox-32 and RP 10 also outside the UK.
Antti