[gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash
Is anyone able to run Gnash or Lightspark in Gentoo? Now is the second time I tried it (because yesterday I noticed that Gnash performs not bad in another distro, Trisquel). I'm on ~amd64. Both Gnash and Lightspark have similar problems in Firefox and Chromium. Youtube videos stop and twitch, sound is distorted and has noise. Is anyone luckier than me in burying proprietary software?
Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Pavel Volkov negai...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone able to run Gnash or Lightspark in Gentoo? Now is the second time I tried it (because yesterday I noticed that Gnash performs not bad in another distro, Trisquel). I'm on ~amd64. Both Gnash and Lightspark have similar problems in Firefox and Chromium. Youtube videos stop and twitch, sound is distorted and has noise. Is anyone luckier than me in burying proprietary software? For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for many videos (but not all). Does not help with other sites but at least it's something. :) http://youtube.com/html5
Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash
On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for many videos (but not all). Does not help with other sites but at least it's something. :) http://youtube.com/html5 Interesting... if you do enable HTML5 mode, and still have Flash installed, what happens? Is HTML5 'preferred'?
Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for many videos (but not all). Does not help with other sites but at least it's something. :) http://youtube.com/html5 Interesting... if you do enable HTML5 mode, and still have Flash installed, what happens? Is HTML5 'preferred'? Yes, some older unpopular videos that were uploaded before HTML5 support was added might not support it, but otherwise most videos seem to play using HTML5 instead of Flash once you've opted-in.
Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash
On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for many videos (but not all). Does not help with other sites but at least it's something. :) http://youtube.com/html5 Interesting... if you do enable HTML5 mode, and still have Flash installed, what happens? Is HTML5 'preferred'? Yes, some older unpopular videos that were uploaded before HTML5 support was added might not support it, but otherwise most videos seem to play using HTML5 instead of Flash once you've opted-in. You're better off using media-video/get_flash_videos- to download these anyway. As long as you don't need flash for anything else, there's a huge number of video sites supported. With it downloaded, you can use e.g. mplayer to move around the file like any other video. And when you're done, you can keep it.
Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for many videos (but not all). Does not help with other sites but at least it's something. :) http://youtube.com/html5 Interesting... if you do enable HTML5 mode, and still have Flash installed, what happens? Is HTML5 'preferred'? Yes, some older unpopular videos that were uploaded before HTML5 support was added might not support it, but otherwise most videos seem to play using HTML5 instead of Flash once you've opted-in. You're better off using media-video/get_flash_videos- to download these anyway. As long as you don't need flash for anything else, there's a huge number of video sites supported. With it downloaded, you can use e.g. mplayer to move around the file like any other video. And when you're done, you can keep it. net-misc/youtube-dl is another one that supports many sites and is updated in portage quite often (to keep up with changes to the websites).
Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash
On Tuesday 06 August 2013 09:12:50 Paul Hartman wrote: For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for many videos (but not all). Does not help with other sites but at least it's something. :) http://youtube.com/html5 Yes, of course I enabled it years ago. I still need Flash on other websites (not only videos, there are Flash applets that let you listen to a sound if you click Play or something alike). Youtube was just an example. Also, embedded Youtube videos are always Flash, correct me if I'm wrong.
Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Pavel Volkov negai...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone able to run Gnash or Lightspark in Gentoo? I take my 64 bit gentoo laptop everywhere and have never installed flash (or similar) on it. I told youtube that I use HTML5 which gives me access to ~33% of videos. I use virtualbox to run a 32 bit xubuntu that is used only to view webpages that demand flash. I start it up ~once/week. Chris
