Streaming mutimedia doesn't.

[Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>]

Hi!

This is perhaps a bit of a general rant, but any ideas would help.

I've played with lots of combinations of Linux distros and hardware. I
currently use as my workstation a Dell precision 340 with a 1.9G P4 (I
prefer Athlons...), plenty of memory, plenty of disk etc etc. But this
problem seems to run through them all:

I just don't seem to be able to get streaming multimedia to work right.
Is there something fundamentally broken in the main Linux-compatible web
browsers (old Netscape 4.x, Mozilla 1.0, Opera) that means they don't
talk to real player? Is there something fundamentally broken in the
Linux port of real player? Is it something broken in Gnome or Sawfish
(which I use the most since I use Red hat 7.3 at the moment). Is Ximian
broken?

Or am I broken somewhere - is this a really, really obvious thing that I
haven't done somewhere?

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

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!!!)·

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!

Paul.

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