On Friday 20 October 2006 12:10, Ted Harding wrote:

Hi Folks,

OK, it's maybe a perverse thing to want to do, but ...

Browse to

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/?Where=Cttees&When=This%20Week&Day=Thur...

10:00am HoC Health Committee - Wilson Room - Meeting Information NHS Deficits

I want to watch the video of this session. There is a "Watch from start" link at the right.

I'm not getting any joy from this button (Firefox 1.0). It asks me to "Click here to download plugin", but if I do that then I get "No suitable plugins were found".

Any suggestings for watching this using Firefox in Linux?

Looks like its a WMV file: a Microsoft proprietary format. The mplayer[1] plugin[2] in my browser played it OK. So you either need an mplayer plugin for Firefox[3] or to download the clip and use mplayer stand-alone. I guess it'll need the w32codecs[4][5] as well.

Cheers, Richard

[1] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ [2] http://kmplayer.kde.org/ [3] http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ [4] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs [5] http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/w/w32codecs/