From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 23:03:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D411065686 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:03:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from canito@dalan.us) Received: from netbits.us (ptr-89.fastconcepts.net [209.18.107.89]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A58F68FC1B for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:03:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from canito@dalan.us) Received: (qmail 13046 invoked by uid 1033); 27 Sep 2008 23:03:26 -0000 Received: from 71.63.226.91 by fastconcepts (envelope-from , uid 0) with qmail-scanner-2.01st (clamdscan: 0.92/16. spamassassin: 3.2.4. perlscan: 2.01st. Clear:RC:1(71.63.226.91):. Processed in 0.071998 secs); 27 Sep 2008 23:03:26 -0000 Received: from c-71-63-226-91.hsd1.mn.comcast.net (c-71-63-226-91.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [71.63.226.91]) by fastconcepts.com ([65.17.208.225]) with ESMTP via SSL; 27 Sep 2008 23:03:26 -0000 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:02:48 -0500 From: David Alanis To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080927180248.3094dc20@lalisee> In-Reply-To: <200808041127.m74BRqOM070802@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200808041127.m74BRqOM070802@lurza.secnetix.de> Organization: NAS X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, canito@dalan.us Subject: Re: Stop Adobe Flash Petition X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:03:28 -0000 On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:27:52 +0200 (CEST) Oliver Fromme wrote: > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > nawcom 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:"