From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 22:32:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3364916A5F5 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:32:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B824113C46B for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:32:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9] (may be forged)) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l0AMWhF6030072 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:32:43 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.101] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l0AMWgpw027669 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:32:43 -0800 Message-ID: <45A56989.2060607@u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:32:41 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45A2805E.7060000@ccstores.com> <20070109222558.GA75695@xor.obsecurity.org> <45A42CF3.4000600@u.washington.edu> <20070110222301.GA1233@tuatara.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <20070110222301.GA1233@tuatara.fishballoon.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.2.2.285561, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.1.10.141932 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_MEDIA_BODY 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __LINES_OF_YELLING 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:32:48 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:54:11PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: >> On 1/9/07, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >>> Don't know about some of the items, but... >>> -Flash support with Mozilla products is being done through Mozilla's >>> ActionScript Engine: >>> . >>> So, I expect the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player to be supported >>> on all Unix platforms to some extent in the future. Sound support will >>> be interesting though. >> But I use Opera?? And It needs to work with youtube, without crashing >> and without install headaches. 'cd /usr/ports/www/flash; make install >> clean; exit;' then open browser to youtube.com and go. No library >> shuffle or libmap configuring. > > I'm not sure how it's FreeBSD's problem that Flash doesn't work in Opera, > but anyway - the latest Opera release (9.10, in ports now) works very well > with the Linux Flash 7 plugin, or at least the beta I tried a few weeks ago > did, and I assume they didn't break it since. YouTube worked fine, apart > from some loss of sync between the audio & video, but that is apparently > not a FreeBSD-specific problem. > > There was a thread about this on -questions about a month ago explaining > what was needed to make it work, although the real 9.10 release, or the > port, might make this easier. > > Cheers, > > Scott Scott and Nikolas, I'll try to get the linuxplugin-wrapper port to work with Flash9 for Linux and then I'll submit the change upstream to the maintainer. I too am tired of the fact that Flash is so ubiquitous, but don't have much choice but to get it working. Aw well.. when in Rome, one must do as the Romans do.. even if it involves "hideous" plugins/content :). - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpWmJEnKyINQw/HARAk27AJ40v+igyCubET0EkTq5rUj+XsRxKwCgjmE6 NZtQqJrlCuoXzONgPdgo4no= =gasn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----