From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 11:01:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73BEE37B401 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1EE443FBD for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:01:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HDV00EQH0PHN0@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:00:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:51:17 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id JQ7L8XKR; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:52:46 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:01:10 -0700 From: Johnson David In-reply-to: <200304241151.36520.tsasser@terra.cl> To: Tom , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-id: <200304241101.10971.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200304241151.36520.tsasser@terra.cl> Subject: Re: multimedia and browsers on freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:01:39 -0000 On Thursday 24 April 2003 10:51 am, Tom wrote: > hi all, > > what has been your experience getting *any* browser to work with: > > java > video > audio > flash > and all the other goodies I don't use a browser for it's "goodies", but to browse content. But I have gotten some of the stuff to work in Konqueror. Java is easy. Install java then point Konqueror to it. Audio works "out-of-the-box" in Konqueror for all *standard* formats. Quicktime won't work so don't try. Flash will work with Mozilla but not Konqueror, if you install the flashpluginwrapper. A future Konqueror should handle it as well according to some rumours. The plugger port will allow a few other things to work as well. Why don't these "goodies" work very well with FreeBSD (and Linux)? Because most of these "goodies" are proprietary non-standard protocols. In my opinion, life is too short to waste time on many of these. But things are changing. Software is still a very young industry. As with all young industries, standards are slow to arrive. Consider the early railroad industry, which had a bewildering variety of incompatible track gauges. Eventually they settled on a standard. Software will do the same, and IS doing the same, but it will take some time. David