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Date:      Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:29:33 +0000
From:      Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        "Heiko Wundram \(Beenic\)" <wundram@beenic.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nikola_Lec=28ic=27?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net>, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?
Message-ID:  <47B069DD.2020301@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080211161807.L3924@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <47AFC80B.8090303@gmail.com> <47B05924.5000405@cs.okstate.edu>	<47B05C7A.80602@pacific.net.sg> <200802111540.34420.wundram@beenic.net>	<20080211161507.6e82fbd4@anthesphoria.net> <20080211161807.L3924@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> Agree here, but "open-source friendly" companies that promote the use
>> of flash are much worse. As it seems to be, the reason why people want
>> to use flash on FreeBSD is youtube in most of cases.
> 
> you don't need flash to view youtobe movies.
> 
> simply get URL from there, use youtube-dl from ports to download and
> play with mplayer
> 
> possibly (my connection is to slow now to try realtime) you may do
> 
> mplayer `youtube-dl -g URL`
> 

gnash and swfdec-plugin (both in ports) will also play youtube movies if
you need them in your browser for some reason :)

> 
> by the way you'll get better control of what's going on, and save
> bandwidth by not downloading the movie every time, just once
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