Re: Streaming mutimedia doesn't.

Yo Paul!

On 4 Sep 2002, Paul Furness wrote:

> Date: 04 Sep 2002 09:35:41 +0100

> I just don't seem to be able to get streaming multimedia to work right.

No problems for me, I use realplayer and mplayer with Mozilla.

> Not just real player either - java and flash never seem to work quite
> right, either.

They work fine for me, but I usually turn them off to be spared the
crap.

> I'm pretty fed up with downloading various different plugins that are
> needed and then after installing them finding that they still don't
> bloody work! In the end, I often end up running up a virtual machine
> with Windows in it, and using Internet Explorer because basically it
> works (God, I _hate_ saying that about MS products!!!)·

Really?  My windows hosts crash much more often than my Linux hosts.

Mozilla seems much more tolerant to me of bad javascript and bad html
than IE 6.

> Someone tell me I'm missing something simple - I'd rather that I was
> wrong (or at least need calibrating) rather than all the software being
> wrong!

Hmm, well, I think you must be missing something.

BTW, I use Slackware, but install most of these things from the
sourceforge source rather than the munged distro versions.

RGDS
GARY
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