From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 22 13:38:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438C716A403 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:38:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derrick@uniquestrength.net) Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.192.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9EF43D6E for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:38:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derrick@uniquestrength.net) Received: from mail.uniquestrength.net ([68.55.97.199]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20061022133834m14003pbh3e>; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:38:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.uniquestrength.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.uniquestrength.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E55F5C42; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:38:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uniquestrength.net Received: from mail.uniquestrength.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.uniquestrength.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pPl23Xcw-CeC; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:38:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.109] (unknown [10.10.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.uniquestrength.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADE25C3B; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:38:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Derrick Edwards To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:46:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <7cc8007f0610190832u5b5f637dv756ca91d5f99d770@mail.gmail.com> <20061019170850.GA60680@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20061019123431.67f44b59@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20061019123431.67f44b59@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610220946.46679.derrick@uniquestrength.net> Cc: Jerry McAllister , Mark Kane , Dimiter Ivanov Subject: Re: Flash player 9 Beta is Live 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: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:38:45 -0000 On Thursday 19 October 2006 13:34, Mark Kane wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006, at 13:08:50 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:32:14PM +0300, Dimiter Ivanov wrote: > > > http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html > > > > > > I have downloaded the stand alone player and it works out of the > > > box. Anyone having expirience with the browser plugin ? > > > > > > I'm using 6.1 Release and KDE 3.5.4 > > > > OK. That sounds promising. > > > > But, is this limited to KDE or how about plain Firefox running > > on plain ole FreeBSD 6.1 with a fairly plain Windows manager? > > Does it requite the Lunix compatibility stuff? > > Yes, the plugin would need the Linux compatibility and a Linux binary > browser (such as linux-firefox or linux-opera). > > I tried the standalone version yesterday on FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE > [amd64] and I couldn't get the standalone version to play anything (it > would just not do anything when opening files -- just sits at the > white background of the window). I did try the Linux browser plugin > along with linux-opera and it worked somewhat. > > It played the visual elements of Flash OK, however there is no sound > since they're using ALSA for the sound in version 9. I also noticed > that after playing Flash content, the area where the content was > would turn a solid grey color and it seemed to lock the browser up a > bit. If I closed out of that tab it seemed to be OK. > > Normally I have Flash disabled for all but a couple sites since it uses > up tons of RAM and really slows down the browser after use (version 7 > at least), so I unloaded 9 and went back to 7 for now where sound at > least works. > > Hopefully Adobe will add in alternate sound support methods so other > platforms besides Linux can have sound like in version 7, and of course > I hope they release a native FreeBSD binary sometime too so we can use > native browsers. > > -Mark I am not able to get this to work. I downloaded, unpacked, changed the permissions of the flash player and executed it. All I get is the adobe flashplayer dialog box. I tried to input an URL in the dialog box and it does nothing. Any help would be appreciated... Also can this be used inside of kde konqueor? v/r Derrick