Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:27:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.ORG>, conrads@cox.net, nawcom@nawcom.com Subject: Re: Stop Adobe Flash Petition Message-ID: <200808041127.m74BRqOM070802@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0808040049180.20268@sea.ntplx.net>
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Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote: > Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > nawcom <nawcom@nawcom.com> wrote: > > > I checked out the flash at the University of Utah site, and I must say > > > it is impressive for gnash. Looks like that swf was made with Flash 7, > > > or at least that's its minimum requirement. Unfortunately, gnash has a > > > while to go, as it will never be in a satisfactory state until - it > > > loads YouTube videos. Yes, ridiculous, but true, since I'm sure that is > > > one of the many flash sites that people want to load. :( > > > > I've watched YouTube videos with Gnash, even with version 0.8.3. Not > > *all* of them worked, mind you, but quite a substantial number. > > > > Here's one of my favorites (a real hoot, actually; a "translation", with > > accompanying "visual aids", of what Joe Cocker was actually singing at > > Woodstock) :-) : > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM > > I've got 3 computers and gnash only works fairly well with youtube > videos on one of the computers (a laptop with an Intel 945GM, on > an ATI radeon mobility M7 7500 and a Matrox MGA G200 it does not). > Not sure why. Some basic flash videos work fine in all 3, but > some flash files only work on the Intel 945GM-based laptop. > All 3 computers are running identical 8.0-current and ports > (all ports were built on one of the systems and packaged, then > installed on the other 2). This is gnash-devel. Just in case this is useful for somebody ... There is a small conmmandline tool to download youtube videos: ports/www/youtube_dl. Given the URL it downloads the video into a .flv file that can be played with mplayer or other standalone video players. Sure, it's not the same as watching the video inside the browser page, but it's better than nothing. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "It combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript." -- Jamie Zawinski, when asked: "What's wrong with perl?"
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