The other day I did a fresh install of the newly-release Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). There are a number of new features, but one I had forgotten about was the video codec detection system. I logged onto the BBC website today and thought I would try and watch some of the snooker (they stream it live). The BBC video player is always a bit interesting, so I launched the file in a standalone player and, as expected, the codec was not available.

However, this was detected, and I was offered the appropriate codec (via Gstreamer plugins), which it then downloaded and installed, and now I’m sitting here watching it perfectly. Another coup for Ubuntu.

mrBen

[edit]Footnote: The embedded browser player now also works, although it didn’t seem to spark off the codec installer, which would’ve been even neater.[/edit]