From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 20:34:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B981065670 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:34:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F7BD8FC08 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:34:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9036 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2010 20:34:07 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 23 Jan 2010 20:34:06 -0000 Message-ID: <4B5B5D60.9070803@telenix.org> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:34:40 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henry Hu References: <4B59E5B8.5040004@telenix.org> <53a1e0711001220957s5d3dc71ah6b91d75b2674319c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53a1e0711001220957s5d3dc71ah6b91d75b2674319c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using gnash X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:34:07 -0000 Henry Hu wrote: > Hi, > Do you see the plugin in the about:plugins page? No, never heard of it and can't find that page. Would be thrilled to get a URL. > > As I see from the pkg-plist, the gnash port installs the plugin into > certain place. You may try to create a symbol link of the plugin file > in the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory. >> If either are true, what will get gnash working for me on FreeBSD-current? Oh, >> yes, I saw that there was a gnash-devel port, I didn't use that one, should I have? >> >> Or, maybe it's something simple like rebuilding firefox? Sorry for writing again, but I've now spent a lot of time Googling this, and also searching the FreeBSD mailing lists. I can find complaints about gnash, but I also see a couple of mails telling that gnash works well for them. Trouble is, they just say "install it", but give no details. Above, you say that I might symlink the plugin, but I haven't the least idea which of the many files in the pkg-plist *IS* the plugin, none are so obviously named. Otherwise, I'd be happy to do that. I *did* find a plugins dir inside my ~/.mozilla dir, so if I only could find out what the name of the plugin might be, that would help. Howcome it is that the port hasn't got one even general word of description on installing, if it won't take on the install task itself. I interpret install as getting it to the point that it works, not just putting it someplace. Don't tell me it couldn't be done, there *could* be an option to configure several browsers to work, say with a negative default. If there's a squib on this someplace, and you give me a URL, I'd be happy to read it, but I'm just not a browser internals expert. I'm not even sure, is the stuff from (for example) youtube a *.flv file? I saw an oblique reference to that once. I found a file in the .mozilla/defaults dir which was mimeTypes.rdf, but it had a complicated format which I can't figure out well enough to synthesize an entry for a .flv file (if that might be correct).