Shuttleworth Interview - Irony

[lowey23]

Had a look at this site

http://www.channel4.com/more4/news/news-opinion-feature.jsp?id=350

to see an interview with Mark Shuttleworth.

Do you think I can get ANY of my players or browsers to play this bloody thing?????

I can watch most things on the net with Konq., Firefox or Opera, (have all the codecs and stuff) but I* can't get THIS bloody thing to work!!!!!

And in Kubuntu!!!! Not sure if it's annoying or funny. Probably funny.

Cheers

Lowey

[KDEfanboy]

Plays with KMplayer embedded in Konqueror, set up with embedding for mimetype video/x-ms-asf and mplayer with mplayercodecs-all-20060501. IIRC, KMplayer adds extra code for asx handling.

If you still haven't seen it yet, this is the same video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1341210584930823491

Or try standalone kmplayer with the direct link:
http://www.channel4.com/player/v2/asx/showpresentation.jsp?showId=1009

[askrieger]

The Google site played well in Firefox, on a machine with Kubuntu 686 and the non-free codecs. The Channel4 site wouldn't play for me in either Konq or FF on either my AMD-64 or i686 boxes.

[lowey23]

Thanks KDEfanboy,

The Google site worked for me.

Thanks Al

Appears to be not my machine. Good to know. Was worth the effort to have a look, though. Good little story.