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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 2000 21:06:04 -0600 (CST)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shockwave Flash plugin problems...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004012059360.53010-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004011413140.659-100000@shell.nominum.com>

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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Peter Losher wrote:

> Hi 
> 
> (Thanks to all that helped me with adding additional keys to my keyboard)
> 
> I have a new "irritation" - mainly with the Shockwave Flash plugin.  I run
> FreeBSD workstations at home and at work (Both v3.4-STABLE), and I run the
> Linux Netscape Navigator (v4.72 standalone).  I installed the Linux Flash
> plugin at home around six months ago, and while I could view most plugins,
> I kept having problems with some Flash movies where Netscape would say:
> 
> "A plugin for the MIME type application/octet-stream was not found"
> -or-
> "A plugin for the MIME type text/plain was not found"
> 
> (This also sometimes happens with the RealPlayer 7 plugin, where it will
> ask for "A plugin for the MIME type audio/x-realplayer was not found")
> 
> Now, I just added the Shockwave Flash and RealPlayer 7 plugins on my
> workstation at work, and I visit the same sites where I had those error
> messages at home, and the movies (or streams) come thru just fine.  I have
> checked the .netscape/plugin-list and ~/.mime-types and it still does it
> at home.
> 
> Is there anything else I need to change here at home to get this to work?

I've just noticed the same thing with the new linux-flashplayer port
in conjunction with the linux-netscape-communicator-4.72 port when
vising someplace like http://www.atomfilms.com.  I just tried adding
'swf' to the list of filename suffixes that apply to the plugin (which
was empty by default), but that had no effect.

-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
   FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
   For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org )




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