From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 17:01:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0901106566C for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:01:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A228FC16 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:01:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-191-53.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.191.53]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200373D92C; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:01:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id o6EH1ggE002263; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:01:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:01:42 +0200 From: Polytropon To: paul Message-Id: <20100714190142.da43214e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:01:46 -0000 On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:02 +0200 (CEST), paul wrote: > Hy > I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last > 2 weeks i was trying to use FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, > but i can't make the flash videos work on most of the popular > flash video sites. Oh... "Flash" video, the purpose of "Windows"... :-) > I've tried to pkg_add, compile from source, swfdec-plugin, > gnash on FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.1 ... but nothing worked, Have a look here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html See 6.2.3 - "Firefox and Macromedia® Flash™ Plugin". I had such a setup working on FreeBSD 7, but due to the fact that the web is much more annoying with "Flash", I wiped it off the disk very soon. But this setting should work. There are other ideas, such as using wine and a "Windows" based browser and plugin. > i can use mplayer to play movies so this shouldn't be a problem, You can use mplayer together with the program youtube-dl. It will download "Flash" video in swf format (or avi if -a is given). > when i use swfdec, there are some unhandled event (usually > unhandled event 19) and sometimes can't write to a > $HOME/.config/filename file, I never was lucky using swfdec... > and with gnash i see an error occurred, please try again later > message on the site. I don't think gnash is sufficiently developed. > I've tried googling but most of the articles i found seemed outdated. > So finally i came here with the question: Is it possible to watch > youtube on a FreeBSD system ? And if it is, someone would be so kind > to guide me to a FAQ / Article / wiki / or tell me how to do it ? As I said, if it's just youtube, use youtube-dl and mplayer. It works *perfectly*. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...