From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 23:59:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBDA1065670 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:59:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout019.mac.com (asmtpout019.mac.com [17.148.16.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CF68FC14 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:59:59 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp019.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LN9004FIPB8LJ90@asmtp019.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:59:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.4.6813,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-06-23_08:2011-06-23, 2011-06-23, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1106230236 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:59:32 -0700 Message-id: <35B9DB5F-5AF1-41BB-B965-F64B5E50FBE5@mac.com> References: To: FreeBSD X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Subject: Re: Problem with web video 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: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:59:59 -0000 On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Carmel wrote: > I have been fighting a losing battle trying to get video to display > with Firefox. I just updated to the latest version 5;however, it still > does not work. This is on a FreeBSD-8.2 system. > > As an example, the following URL does not display the video or even the > portion where one would usually click on to start the video. > > http://front.moveon.org/bill-maher-if-our-policy-is-yeehaw-jesus-takes-the-wheel-were-dead-already/ That's Flash content. Adobe supports Windows, MacOSX, Linux, and Solaris (from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions ). If it is important to you that Flash works well, you should either persuade Adobe to provide a FreeBSD version, or you should switch to using one of the platforms on which Flash is supported. Regards, -- -Chuck