How to play videos from nbcolympics.com in Ubuntu [tutorial]
For the past few days I've been really pissed that I couldn't access videos on nbcolympics on my Ubuntu box. I'd have to proxy out of the country to watch them on the BBC (but proxy servers are notoriously unreliable and it was definitely a pain). Recently I discovered a very nice way to watch the videos from nbcolympics.com on my Ubuntu box. I cannot take credit for any of this at all - rather we should all thank k_i_k on the Ubuntu forums. In this post I'll tell you how to set things up. Install (if you haven't already): w32codecs, totem-xine (or your preferred media player. Note: vlc doesn't seem to play sound), python-libxml2, python-lxml, python-xml The quick way to do this is with this command: sudo apt-get install w32codecs totem-xine python-libxml2 python-lxml python-xml Once everything is installed, download this python script - it does all the magic. chmod 755 nbcquick-rev2.py Then, as instructed here , browse nbcolympics.com , find the video you wan...