amy's lab

June 26, 2008

Watching ESPN 360 Video in Ubuntu

Filed under: Using Linux Exclusively — Tags: , , — amy @ 51

In Ubuntu, if you go to the ESPN 360 website, it will tell you that the video player is only available for Windows and Mac. What to do? Before ESPN 360 released a new version of Move Media Player, I was able to watch videos in Ubuntu by doing the following:

  • Install Wine
  • Install Firefox for Windows.
  • Use Firefox for Windows to go to the ESPN 360 website and install Move Media Player plugin.

Recently, ESPN 360 released a new version of Move Media Player which is incompatible with Wine 1.0. When I played video using the new player, it made the entire screen black. I had to do a hard reboot.

This is one of the reason I have to keep Windows around. Somethings just won’t work in Linux :(

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