From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 11:54:45 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 006AD37B401 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail7-sh.home.nl (mail7.home.nl [213.51.128.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2A443FBD for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nascar24@home.nl) Received: from home.nl ([217.120.167.10]) by mail7-sh.home.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20030424185441.MYSP26071.mail7-sh.home.nl@home.nl> for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:54:41 +0200 Message-ID: <3EA832F2.7050901@home.nl> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:54:42 +0200 From: Marcel Dijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <200304241151.36520.tsasser@terra.cl> <200304241101.10971.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 18:54:45 -0000 > > >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.