From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 03:26:19 2010 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 777621065676 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:26:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DE88FC20 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31976 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2010 03:26:18 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 18 Apr 2010 03:26:18 -0000 Message-ID: <4BCA7D09.7050501@telenix.org> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:31:21 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henry Hu References: <4BCA78E6.2000303@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: playing youtube 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: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:26:19 -0000 Henry Hu wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Chuck Robey 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"? Thanks, Henry, I'll admit to a bit of snobbery, I really like to use FreeBSD native software if it's possible, and 3 months ago, I was really happy that gnash had worked for me, but I suppose something has turned the corner, so I'll see about using your suggestion. I think the methods for getting the Linux stuff to work are documented in a huge number of spots, so I won't run into that Catch-22 again.