Why cant i watch this

[Mac_i_Am]

I'm trying to watch this video on pbs.org but i get this message:

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The page “FRONTLINE/World . Rough Cut. India: A Pound of Flesh | PBS” has content of MIME type “audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin”. Because you don’t have a plug-in installed for this MIME type, this content can’t be displayed.
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It should run on Quicktime or Real player
What can i do?

(Everything's updated on my computer)

Here's the link: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2006/07/india_a_pound_o.html#


Thanks for the help!

 

[yellow]

Works fine for me.. looks to me like you don't have RealPlayer installed.

 

[Frisco]

What browser arr you using? What happens when you click play in Quicktime?

 

[Mac_i_Am]

right, i dont have real player

thought it would run fine on quicktime alone
why would it need both? ::scratchhead::

 

[yellow]

Because RealPlayer uses proprietary encoding, it doesn't work in anything except RealPlayer.
Just quit Safari, download the free player, install it, and then head back to that PBS site.

 

[Mac_i_Am]

nevermind... its working now

after the message, i select "large" for quicktime on the pop-up window and it plays.

wonder why it doesnt recognize it automatically

 

[bobber205]

Why do so many websites still even use RealPlayer? That's what I don't get...

 

[Frisco]

Why do so many websites still even use RealPlayer? That's what I don't get...

True, but at least they also offer you to watch it in Quicktime.

 

[KingYaba]

Flip4Mac for the ugly windows media they have. I love Frontline. Have you seen country boys? It's so very long but I enjoyed it.

 

[Frisco]

Flip4Mac for the ugly windows media they have. I love Frontline. Have you seen country boys? It's so very long but I enjoyed it.

I love Frontline too! I never saw country boys. What's that about? I would have to say my favorite Frontline episode is "The American Justice System."
I also loved Walmart and The War in Iraq.

 

[Nermal]

Why do so many websites still even use RealPlayer? That's what I don't get...

I believe that it's the most compatible.

 

[bobber205]

I believe that it's the most compatible.

I think it was the most compatible, but no longer is .

 

[Nermal]

I think it was the most compatible, but no longer is .

To this day, QuickTime and Windows Media seem to only run on Windows and Mac. RealPlayer runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Palm, BeOS, and probably some other systems too.