Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:20:33 +0800 From: Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh@gmail.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: playing youtube Message-ID: <j2z53a1e0711004172020ka3a24263s343b02a76868fd74@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BCA78E6.2000303@telenix.org> References: <4BCA78E6.2000303@telenix.org>
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On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote: > My ability to play the youtube videos has died ... I was admittedly away from my > computer for 3 months (hospitalization + physical therapy), but when I got back, > gnash stopped working for me on youtube, it keeps on telling me to upgrade. I > made sure I had the latest gnash installed into my firefox so I'm kinda at a > loss to explain this (why the gnash port won't do that for me, and won't even > offer a readme to help is quite beyond me). The default place for the port to > install itself should be the place that works for other FreeBSD ports browsers. You may try the linux flash plugin: www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin It works fairly well now, generally no lockups, with sound, and good font... > > But you know what REALLY frosted me? I went to google to see if maybe this had > been chewed over and fixed (I'm running FreeBSD-current, BTW), and I saw several > videos whose title seemed to be promising, but where where they? Huh, they were > on youtube. Geeze, if you can view those videos, you don't need the help, and > if you do need the help, you're basically fucked. Anyone remember a book > "Catch-22"? > > I needed to vent this. Oh, and if anyone on there has the magic formula to get > youtube playing again, I'd appreciate a hint, but I'll continue to try to mine > the mailing lists, this MUST have irritated others. > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- Cheers, Henry
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