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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:02:47 -0700
From:      Zephiris <zephiris@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9
Message-ID:  <ff938c$3mh$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <20071008125558.GE1509@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> <790a9fff0710080752k90c1ac3r23856304f176648e@mail.gmail.com> <18186.18515.36297.742895@whale.home-net> <200710101940.l9AJetsx013837@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20071018195144.GA12546@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20071018203148.GA11544@freebsd.org> <11167f520710181513n71e1d317r543ffaad94c19543@mail.gmail.com>

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Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> 
> I too am confused, if you have flash 9 working in firefox on RELENG_7
> please give us a detailed how to there are just a TON of people
> looking for this. I have 5 systems I would test it out on right now, 2
> of them are teenager computers so they would get a workout on youtube
> , among other sites that require flash 8 :)
> 
> Sam Fourman Jr.

I saw this floating around before, and tried it. It "works" with Flash9 on
RELENG_7, but lots of things will still crash it. Back on the
freebsd-multimedia mailing from Feb, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>
(I don't want to take credit or anything) noticed libflashsupport.so
helped to some degree. I have to run Gentoo on /compat/linux (am I the
only one for which Nvidia linux drivers won't do anything with FC4 X11
libraries?), but it's the same with the binary libflashsupport.so posted
([1], it goes into /compat/linux/usr/lib), and compiled according to
instructions from the Adobe Beta site[2].

It's good enough to play many flash videos, it doesn't look like many games
will work, or that things that use 'streaming video' will work, either.

I'm not quite sure why it's crashing. Since the source code is available
for this[3], perhaps someone better versed with internal details of
FreeBSD and in particular the Linux compatibility mode can take an
examination of this sort of thing so we might have a chance at a flash9
that will, say, actually work with YouTube (although gnash does a fine job
on that for now).


[1]
http://people.freebsd.org/~lofi/libflashsupport.so

[2]
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:Additional_Interface_Support_for_Linux

[3]
http://www.kaourantin.net/flashplayer/flashsupport.c




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