Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:33:18 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox? Message-ID: <201002051133.18840.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201002041556.20012.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> References: <20100204012953.GA32975@thought.org> <6201873e1002031808w10511da4t8533b62001a0cd0c@mail.gmail.com> <201002041556.20012.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
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On Thursday 04 February 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: > Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm > running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on > 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC > iplayer always comes up with a message "This content doesn't seem to > be working. Try again later" superimposed over a still image of the > start of the video. YouTube videos play but without any sound. Thanks for the replies which show that the problem lies with my setup rather than within the flash player. On further investigation I saw that about:plugins showed 2 different flash plugins, one from linux-f10-flashplugin-10 and the other from swfdec-plugin. Since the FreeBSD handbook explained how to install both these plugins I assumed that I needed to install both of them but I now see from the port description that swfdec-plugin can only play Flash 4 files so it's not surprising that this caused problems. I've uninstalled swfdec-plugin and swfdec and things are much better, BBC Iplayer videos and YouTube work fine now. Oddly Iplayer still come up with the same error for BBC radio programmes but they work fine via "listen now" and I can download podcasts as mp3 files so I can live with that, especially since I don't need flash very often. Since swfdec-plugin can't play recent flash files and hasn't had any development for over a year I'm surprised the FreeBSD handbook still explains how to install it and doesn't even mention that it conflicts with the linux flash plugin. -- Mike Clarke
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