What flash players should be used from ports?

[Andrew Falanga]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, John Gage <grepkeen at gmail.com> wrote:

> You have three viable choices, I'd recommend the third:
> 1. ports/graphics/gnash or gnash-devel (high CPU utilization on FreeBSD)
> 2. ports/www/swfdec-plugin [ ports/graphics/swfdec itself is a
> standalone flash player, the plugin port installs a plugin for firefox
> usage.  0.8.4 is the latest version for the standalone player(which,
> according to the official swfdec site, can play youtube video just
> fine). However, the plugin port of swfdec is still at version 0.8.2
> and does not work with youtube videos at the moment.]
> 3. ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4 + ports/www/linux-flashplugin9 +
> ports/www/nspluginwrapper (this method is the most complex, but
> usually yields the fastest-responding flash and best results, at the
> moment.)
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Currently running i386.  I'm using firefox 3.0.4 (need to upgrade, wow
> >> didn't realize that).
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hy,
> >
> >
> > There are several ways to use flash player in FreeBSD X environment. One
> is,
> > as someone previously pointed out, gnash. Another is by using
> > nspluginwrapper and linux-flashplugin. Yet another is by using swfdec.
> > A god start would be http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html and
>
> This link from Vasadi should be very helpful to you, I have found that
> the most stable fedora core base for myself has been 4.  I had a great
> deal of trouble with npviewer.bin core dumping and locking up firefox
> really nicely with fedora base 8, so I'd stick with 4.
>
> >
> http://www.google.ro/search?hl=ro&q=freebsd+firefox+flash+player&btnG=C%C4%83utare+Google&meta=&aq=f&oq=
> > and of course http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/but
> > aspecially
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
> > .  Hope that triggered your appetite.
> >
>

Thanks everyone.  I'll be getting into this as time permits over the next
few days I hope.

Andy

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