Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:54:42 +0200 From: Marcel Dijk <nascar24@home.nl> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multimedia and browsers on freebsd Message-ID: <3EA832F2.7050901@home.nl> References: <200304241151.36520.tsasser@terra.cl> <200304241101.10971.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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> > >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. > > And I am using WindowMaker. For browsing I use Netsscape 7, a very nice release I might say, albeit a touch slow. It can handle flash (out of the box) and I think there is good java support too but I never tested that. I watch multimedia streams with mplayer (ports). It can handle very much kinds of streams and formats. Last time I used it was for the Skynews.com stream (mplayer live.asx), works nice. It also has realplayer and QT support. With a RPM on the site you can also get it as a plugin in Netscape, but I also never tested that. BTW Mozilla != Netscape 7, Netscape isn't that "commie oriented" and works better. OK, that where my 2 (euro) cents. Gr. Marcel.
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