From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 03:08:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25BCA106564A for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:08:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0664B8FC0A for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20504 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2010 03:08:39 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 18 Apr 2010 03:08:39 -0000 Message-ID: <4BCA78E6.2000303@telenix.org> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:13:42 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: playing youtube X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:08:43 -0000 My ability to play the youtube videos has died ... I was admittedly away from my computer for 3 months (hospitalization + physical therapy), but when I got back, gnash stopped working for me on youtube, it keeps on telling me to upgrade. I made sure I had the latest gnash installed into my firefox so I'm kinda at a loss to explain this (why the gnash port won't do that for me, and won't even offer a readme to help is quite beyond me). The default place for the port to install itself should be the place that works for other FreeBSD ports browsers. But you know what REALLY frosted me? I went to google to see if maybe this had been chewed over and fixed (I'm running FreeBSD-current, BTW), and I saw several videos whose title seemed to be promising, but where where they? Huh, they were on youtube. Geeze, if you can view those videos, you don't need the help, and if you do need the help, you're basically fucked. Anyone remember a book "Catch-22"? I needed to vent this. Oh, and if anyone on there has the magic formula to get youtube playing again, I'd appreciate a hint, but I'll continue to try to mine the mailing lists, this MUST have irritated others.