From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 20:27:51 2007 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 1B8B316A419 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:27:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC8F13C4BE for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:27:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 9648 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2007 20:27:44 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 19 Nov 2007 20:27:44 -0000 Message-ID: <4741F180.5090406@chuckr.org> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:26:40 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Donnelly References: <4740C543.7080401@chuckr.org> <4741B804.7070702@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <4741B804.7070702@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto flash me? 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: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:27:51 -0000 Thomas Donnelly wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> OK, I'm convinced now that we have no acceptable solution to get a >> current flash player working under FreeBSD. I have here in the same >> room with me a Gentoo box, and I see from their package system that >> there are at least two different paths for getting flash working. >> One's the Adobe Flash player. Anyone knkow why that won't work under >> FreeBSD on Linux browser? >> >> Second option is either a gpl flash library called GPL flash (not a >> long stretch for naming, is it?) There are even some tracks to go to >> get some Adobe soource code. >> >> All I want here is hints, if anyone knows that one particular path >> might be easier for porting than another, or possibly more compatible, >> or for any reason a better platform for me to take on as a project, >> I'd really appreciate a hint, because while I can port stuff ok, I've >> never been all that plugged into the world of web applications, and I >> probably don't know many things about web apps that you probably >> consider as obvious. So, I'll take on the porting job if you can just >> dredge up any hints you have heard, cause i don't want to waste time >> on running up blind alleys. >> >> Thanks. I'll begin porting tomorrow, you have that long. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Couple of ways to do it > http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:browserplugins > If you want to use a linux browser > > http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php > If you want to use KDE and linux plugin wrapper. > > I find that the best way is to install wine-doors > (/usr/ports/emulators/wine-doors) and run Firefox 2.0 and install flash > in that. I can play bloons tower defense 2 semi-comfortably in it, > granted the machine has a moderate amount of power. > > According to Adobe, FreeBSD isn't "cool" enough (actually just not > enough requests, which if you look at the forums is quite a lie) So we > are forced to use a linux hack. Yeah, but they distribute sources, so it's portable. I thought to give it a try, if there isn't a better FreeBSD method. I understood that installing a Linux mozilla/filefox will only get you the older Flash7, not the newer flash9. I suppose the wine-doors would work, but I have a real allergy to running MS software, and that's the stuff, at least, it's meant to run under Windows, right? I would avoid that. > -=Tom Donnelly > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"