On Friday 22 December 2006 13:03, "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] AMD browsing and multimedia': > Hi, > I'm wondering what the best solutions are right now for a full > featured browser in GentooAMD64? > > I use a number of Investing web sites. Some of them won't even try > to run certain features telling me I'm on an unsupported OS. The ones > that do try to run the features seem to fail in one area or another. > Is it possible to make all 3 of these technologies work in a single > browser on AMD64? > > 1) Java > 2) Flash > 3) 32-bit streaming media?
#1 "Just works" for me on konqueror. I believe the relevant USE flag is nsplugin. I believe the relevant package is anything satisfying virtual/jre with the nsplugin USE flag non-binary. #2 Adobe's flash doesn't work in 64-bit land, so you have to have some 32-bit compatibility layer. At one time, that was as simple as using firefox-bin. Even now, you can just do the whole system as x86 CHOST (is which case everything is 32-bit) or set up a 32-bit chroot (well-documented, but a little wasteful on disk space) or even use the un-supoorted package ported from debian that allows 64-bit konqueror to load 32-bit plugins. #3 You'll have to be more specific. The only media I've ever had problems with are Microsoft-specific, generally undocumented formats, and some of those even work now that we've got a reversed-engineered source-based implementation. Standard media formats and, in particular, open media formats have always "just worked" for me, although they do often have an associated USE flag. > It seems that if I run firefox-bin I get most Flash and streaming > media, or at least as much as I think I need. However I definitely do > not get Java. Try getting a 32-bit -bin jre/jdk. It may provide a plugin (via the nsplugin USE flag) that can be symlinked to the correct place to work in your firefox-bin. > It seems that if I run firefox compiled for 64-bit then Flash > doesn't work and I don't think all Java does either, or at least on my > system. Adobe's flash just doesn't work in 64-bit land. You might try gnash though, it's just as much of a memory and CPU hog, and it certainly allowed websites to annoy the [EMAIL PROTECTED] out of me with ads the few days I had it installed. That is, it did work as a flash player (mostly); it was not able to play items from YouTube, so I just don't watch YouTube. HTH -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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