From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 11:58:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B25C81065675 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:58:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (smtp5-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C00F8FC18 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:58:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A8C3F61A7; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:58:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (tataz.chchile.org [82.233.239.98]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B746E3F6291; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:58:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (unknown [192.168.1.25]) by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1229B497; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:54:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DCE654089; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:54:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:54:03 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Mark Carlson Message-ID: <20080627115403.GK15815@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: jamie@bishopston.net, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, gb.public@free.fr, narayan@neelum.com Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:58:40 -0000 Hi, On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:03:08AM -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > I've found wine + firefox + flash to work for everything I've tried so > far (youtube, various websites with flash ads, one or two flash-only > sites.) It did crash on me once, but I'm not sure it was related to > flash. Wine is pretty good, but not perfect. If all you need is to > visit flash sites, it's a decent workaround in the mean time. Also, I > was very surprised how easy it was to set up (not having used wine > before.) The sake of completeness, I think it's worth mentionning that when using nspluginwrapper, it is theorically possible to run the Flash plugin (and other ones too) inside QEMU. I've read this on nspluginwrapper author's website [1]: this trick is used to execute binary plugins for i386 on other platforms but this could obviously work for our problem. Unfortunately, I've never seen any documentation or instruction to set up this. I've Cc'ed the author, in case he has some time to provide additional details. [1] http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/nspluginwrapper/help#usage Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >