Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:19:15 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken? Message-ID: <1365337155.4069.138.camel@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20130407074430.1e98811f@scorpio> References: <20130406213911.GB2802@schweikhardt.net> <1365285205.709.7.camel@archlinux> <1365285467.709.10.camel@archlinux> <20130407062158.08e1c3fb@scorpio> <1365332719.4069.99.camel@archlinux> <20130407074430.1e98811f@scorpio>
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On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 07:44 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> You hear FreeBSD users who claim
> that they never use Flash, which in itself is an interesting
> statement.
> If it doesn't work, then obviously you cannot take advantage of it. I
> suspect at least 50% of them are liars. The rest are more than likely
> expressing their "sour-grapes" wrath.
No, I guess at least for media players you're mistaken. I was born in
1966 and a lot of people from my generation still own a television set,
turntables etc..
Not seldom I watch several hours television at one day. I guess after
watching 4 hours television, it's not hard to spare flash on the
computer ;).
Yes, you can miss interesting stuff without flash, but you also will
miss interesting things, if you watch too much videos.
In the past I used flash, I tested gnash first, but I preferred the
proprietary thingy. It started as an experiment when I installed Arch
Linux some weeks ago and I noticed that I can live without flash.
However, I only need to run one command to get flash and on Linux AFAIK
it doesn't cause issues until now.
$ yaourt flashplayer
1 extra/flashplugin 11.2.202.275-1
Adobe Flash Player
2 aur/bin32-flashplayer-standalone 11.2.202.275-1 (5)
Macromedia standalone flash player (nonfree)
3 aur/flashplayer-standalone 11.2.202.275-1 (134)
Macromedia standalone flash player (nonfree)
4 aur/flashplayer-standalone-debug 11.2.202.275-1 (7)
Standalone, debug version of Adobe Flash Player
5 aur/gnash-git 20120122-1 (Out of Date) (3)
An open source flashplayer - git version
==> Enter n° of packages to be installed (ex: 1 2 3 or 1-3)
==> -------------------------------------------------------
==> ^C
I even don't know if I have flash on FreeBSD installed, since I more
often use Linux.
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