One thing i enjoy on the internet is watching the news and streaming
videos. I've been reading how to set up steaming videos BUT quality is poor.

I did the following:
went to synaptic, searched for gstreamer, highlighted all and installed.
I then had SOUND when i tried to watch a streaming video.
Read a bit more and went to
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxStreamingVideo
pasted into terminal the two shaded snips on that page
all seemed promising when i tried it.
all fine apart from the quality.
I then had a look at the bottom of that webpage and read about
RealPlayer being called Helix in the Linux world. Searched in synaptic
for Helix and installed it.
Still poor quality streaming video compared with winblows machine 24 bit
high colour (same as ubuntu machine).

Seemed Helix wasn't used for streaming video. When the streaming video
window is open i noticed that the Mplayer was set the microsoft rather
than real player. How do you make Helix?realplayer the default for
streaming.

What do you folk do? Is my setup correct? As the sound is good i'm
wondering if the PC video card is faulty (yet seems fine for anything i
browse on the web!)?