Current location:	Office
Current mood:	disappointed

NASA TV and openSUSE
As you might know, the Shuttle Discovery is currently in space, docked to the International Space Station and delivering the last large solarpanel+battery set.

NASA is streaming most of the time live from the station / outside / shuttle via its webcast
engine on www.nasa.gov.

So, how to watch with openSUSE 11.0?

- Realplayer plugin - does not work on x86_64
- no windows media player
- no quicktime player

After several more tries to get Opera, Konqueror or Firefox to work and display video, I found the best solution.

as root (if wine is not yet installed):
zypper in wine
as user:
winetricks firefox3
... follow the dialogs for installation
winetricks quicktime72
... follow the dialogs for installation

there will be a now be new Firefox icon on the desktop and in the Programs menu, start it.
open http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=public.


=> Voila, instant space goodness.

(and yes, it is very sad that while it offers _3_ ways of video, _none_ work by default.)