Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:02:48 -0500 From: David Alanis <canito@dalan.us> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, canito@dalan.us Subject: Re: Stop Adobe Flash Petition Message-ID: <20080927180248.3094dc20@lalisee> In-Reply-To: <200808041127.m74BRqOM070802@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0808040049180.20268@sea.ntplx.net> <200808041127.m74BRqOM070802@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:27:52 +0200 (CEST) Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > nawcom <nawcom@nawcom.com> wrote: > > > > I checked out the flash at the University of Utah site, and I must say > > > > it is impressive for gnash. Looks like that swf was made with Flash 7, > > > > or at least that's its minimum requirement. Unfortunately, gnash has a > > > > while to go, as it will never be in a satisfactory state until - it > > > > loads YouTube videos. Yes, ridiculous, but true, since I'm sure that is > > > > one of the many flash sites that people want to load. :( > > > > > > I've watched YouTube videos with Gnash, even with version 0.8.3. Not > > > *all* of them worked, mind you, but quite a substantial number. > > > > > > Here's one of my favorites (a real hoot, actually; a "translation", with > > > accompanying "visual aids", of what Joe Cocker was actually singing at > > > Woodstock) :-) : > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM > > > > I've got 3 computers and gnash only works fairly well with youtube > > videos on one of the computers (a laptop with an Intel 945GM, on > > an ATI radeon mobility M7 7500 and a Matrox MGA G200 it does not). > > Not sure why. Some basic flash videos work fine in all 3, but > > some flash files only work on the Intel 945GM-based laptop. > > All 3 computers are running identical 8.0-current and ports > > (all ports were built on one of the systems and packaged, then > > installed on the other 2). This is gnash-devel. > > Just in case this is useful for somebody ... There is > a small conmmandline tool to download youtube videos: > ports/www/youtube_dl. Given the URL it downloads the > video into a .flv file that can be played with mplayer > or other standalone video players. Sure, it's not the > same as watching the video inside the browser page, but > it's better than nothing. > > Best regards > Oliver > > -- > Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. > Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Gesch__ftsfuehrung: > secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht M__n- > chen, HRB 125758, Gesch__ftsf__hrer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart > > FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd > > "It combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different > sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C > with the readability of PostScript." > -- Jamie Zawinski, when asked: "What's wrong with perl?" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Thanks, for letting us know of the youtube_dl. Are there any updates to this thread, having improvements? I have gnash 0.8.3 and flash_plugin for mozilla but can't get sound to work 7.0-on RELEASE-p4. I'll just have to wait till someone comes up with a better solution. Conrad, how is what you described different than installing gnash from ports?: "Today, I fetched the repo sources for the "HEAD" version of gnash, built and installed it, and I must say, it's working far better than the latest release version (0.8.3). Sites that wouldn't work properly before are now displaying beautifully. Here's a good example of a site that would break before, but works now:"
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