FreeBSD vs YouTube

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:02 +0200 (CEST), paul <paul_ at freemail.hu> 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 I've tried googling but most of the articles i found seemed outdated.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*.
>
>
>

Is this the same way the Linux users have it?:-)



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