From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 5 05:15:54 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 5E39C106566B for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 05:15:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB5A8FC18 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 05:15:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7750 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2010 05:15:53 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Feb 2010 05:15:53 -0000 Message-ID: <4B6BA9EC.5080202@telenix.org> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:17:32 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Clarke References: <20100204012953.GA32975@thought.org> <6201873e1002031808w10511da4t8533b62001a0cd0c@mail.gmail.com> <201002041556.20012.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201002041556.20012.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:15:54 -0000 Mike Clarke wrote: > On Thursday 04 February 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Kline wrote: >>> Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the >>> bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of >>> firefox35? >>> >>> thought i'd give it a last try since everything is upgraded >>> on my desktop. >> /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 > > Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm > running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on > 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC > iplayer always comes up with a message "This content doesn't seem to be > working. Try again later" superimposed over a still image of the start > of the video. YouTube videos play but without any sound. > I've been using gnash with firefox, *everything* doesn't play, but the majority does. I really don't like being forced to use Linux things, and it seems that gnash nicely gets that accomplished. Note that the gnash install, right out of the port, it's broken, so read up on drivers, and *replace* (not add to) your current flash player with gnash. I found that if you enter "about:plugins" directly into the URL entry box on firefox, you got a whole lot of very useful info about the current state of firefox plugins. It'll tell you if there are other flash plugins which need search & destroy. What you have to do is to make softlinks, but where, exactly, that's stretching my firefox knowledge. I personally, did get lucky. Maybe I should say that someone on the freebsd lists pointed me at the "about:plugins", but I actually first thought it was some web page, so I had to flop about like a fish out of water for a little while. It's a html page, yes, but built directly, dynamically, by firefox.