Stop Adobe Flash Petition
David Alanis
canito at dalan.us
Sat Sep 27 23:30:08 UTC 2008
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:27:52 +0200 (CEST)
Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > > nawcom <nawcom at 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
>
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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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