From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 17:15:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71CB3106564A for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:15:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0044A8FC19 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:15:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so66377wyf.13 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:15:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:reply-to:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Y5U86wxYG3FMezMuxnlo4fm6uKA04IpxOYJqcNQO8pA=; b=QiFCgOswufl2x1KNTGX204QwCl2J1x1NyCCFgRFuwn5Alk/IVVWqPlzQNma5Ym3xNL PnsBPqKqo0ikjNyg2FVRLKy98Yz8pciDJXdeAkrs25WmBLMYXdQ099/sQ8uGr+1E5tsS mUel1DXIovwIE8aeHDTq/7HJooc0ohioypwy4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; b=ZmV9DRNurV5A2/DgI+wdah9UQQ1YFDSybmWV+5xW6stcoLDIGOXndIwAURCMwmqWV4 +4rTNtyc8HZ7t7bUlsixo8tLrE1Uty07wLsnWwzvh/GNcivnj9Hg0nZxsql/5br0nHlB h6YUueHOIEARbQBNrWJ3xcu6joVAIaxwTf/1o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.167.138 with SMTP id i10mr12217517wel.57.1279127282409; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.171.10 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:08:02 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: paul Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:15:18 -0000 >I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last 2 weeks i was trying to use >FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, but i can't make the flash videos work on most of the >popular flash video sites. I've tried to pkg_add, compile from source, swfdec-plugin, >gnash on FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.1 ... but nothing worked, i can use mplayer to play movies >so this shouldn't be a problem, when i use swfdec, there are some unhandled event >(usually unhandled event 19) and sometimes can't write to a $HOME/.config/filename file, >and with gnash i see an error occurred, please try again later message on the site. I've >tried googling but most of the articles i found seemed outdated. So finally i came here >with the question: Is it possible to watch youtube on a FreeBSD system ? And if it is, >someone would be so kind to guide me to a FAQ / Article / wiki / The open-source alternatives are improving, but for the moment, you may have to use www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 (or an earlier version) for Flash. That means you'll have to enable Linux emulation. See Chapter 10 of the Handbook for details. Or you could bypass the Flash requirements of some sites, with one or more of: multimedia/cclive multimedia/clive multimedia/clive-utils www/youtube_dl There is hope for the future: http://www.youtube.com/html5 b.