[OU] Opera upgrade no longer plays BBC radio player

[Hanne E. Larsen]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:21:31 +0200, Hanne E. Larsen <hela at opera.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:40:25 +0200, Peacenik <zenbones at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Very bad news for lovers of BBC internet radio. Since upgrading to Opera
>> 9.51
>> I've been unable to play the BBC radio player.  The url for the BBC
>> radio player is
>>
>> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod
>> /radio3.shtml>
>> and the shortened TinyUrl
>> <http://tinyurl.com/bdrqb>
>>
>> I use a laptop with XP PRO and have the latest flash player plugin
>> installed,
>> namely : WIN 9,0,124,0. Strangely, I can still play the Radio player in
>> either IE or
>> Firefox.
>>
>> One visible problem in Opera, is that the volume and play/pause buttons
>> are no
>> longer visible.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any workarounds that might be offered..
>>
>> Wndy
>
> Seems to be a regression bug. We'll come back to you.
> Thanks,
> Hanne

Please install the weekly build next week (29) which hopefully fixes your  
issue:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

FYI the problem is related to Opera's usage of the RealPlayer plugin, not  
the Flash Player.

Thanks,
-- 
Hanne E. Larsen
Opera Software