From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 17:06:36 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 7C96F106566C for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:06:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F376C8FC14 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:06:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb15 with SMTP id 15so4580599gwb.13 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:06:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=U+pZxgombB2ss4IIW1QaMlp0pntpz/l8ax3DGZDeKVM=; b=EWa63Z+8zhMYWImGGDyqJeQ3OGvEPRttJwsswLsL0gw+6X8mGQYjBMBkiaZg11Css+ 507rR4IF7Ocuqd/kLjvaZlXDKHQEmpc/Wb5FNHuTdoiVPNMzckuaYpUlk7ghIupE/ds0 MJKrU4oP/PAQ7kwXeF2pw+0VHlaYa5SA64004= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=CdyKoDlAZPSpgsIwsG3NNAtC/Dxov1McfHDTLnpoSZATzdu0utwECROeF4kfFIMYBT xa5tO0XRJohLFTNcgjy6mY1WaL4ABM6Ib64Y7DYvaNHmlcQzk1xTmR/+2ljIidiOqUzc Vt0bcslWHsGXEwXcSQFw9gPozIHhcO/3aagSw= Received: by 10.224.97.14 with SMTP id j14mr4427010qan.374.1279127195054; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:06:35 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.183.211 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:06:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100714190142.da43214e.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100714190142.da43214e.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:06:14 +0300 Message-ID: To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, paul Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube 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: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:06:36 -0000 On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: > 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=C2=AE Flash=E2=84=A2 Plugin". I had s= uch > 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*. > > > Is this the same way the Linux users have it?:-) --=20 Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube