Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC iplayer always comes up with a message This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later superimposed over a still image of the start of the video. YouTube videos play but without any sound. Thanks for the replies which show that the problem lies with my setup rather than within the flash player. On further investigation I saw that about:plugins showed 2 different flash plugins, one from linux-f10-flashplugin-10 and the other from swfdec-plugin. Since the FreeBSD handbook explained how to install both these plugins I assumed that I needed to install both of them but I now see from the port description that swfdec-plugin can only play Flash 4 files so it's not surprising that this caused problems. I've uninstalled swfdec-plugin and swfdec and things are much better, BBC Iplayer videos and YouTube work fine now. Oddly Iplayer still come up with the same error for BBC radio programmes but they work fine via listen now and I can download podcasts as mp3 files so I can live with that, especially since I don't need flash very often. Since swfdec-plugin can't play recent flash files and hasn't had any development for over a year I'm surprised the FreeBSD handbook still explains how to install it and doesn't even mention that it conflicts with the linux flash plugin. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:29:57 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? Currently the best way of using BBC iplayer is a perl script called get_iplayer which downloads DRM-free mp4 files intended for mobile-devices. I don't think it's in ports, but you can download it as a single file, which self-upgrades. It can access other interfaces for radio programmes too. The last time I checked the official iplayer application didn't install under wine. The online version is flash-based and should work with anything that supports flash - I still use windows firefox under wine, but it probably will work with linux flash under emulation. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? thought i'd give it a last try since everything is upgraded on my desktop. /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC iplayer always comes up with a message This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later superimposed over a still image of the start of the video. YouTube videos play but without any sound. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.ukwrote: Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC iplayer always comes up with a message This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later superimposed over a still image of the start of the video. YouTube videos play but without any sound. I don't have either of those issues. I've come across a couple of players that don't work, but all the standard ones like youtube, pbs, bbc all work perfectly for me. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.ukwrote: Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC iplayer always comes up with a message This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later superimposed over a still image of the start of the video. YouTube videos play but without any sound. I don't have either of those issues. I've come across a couple of players that don't work, but all the standard ones like youtube, pbs, bbc all work perfectly for me. I would like to amemd that statement by saying they work perfectly for me except for an occasional temporary browser freeze. This occur when entering or leaving a page at which point the entire browser will hang for maybe 30 seconds then recover and perform as usual. This a random event, but probably occurs at least daily. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
Mike Clarke writes: Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? Possible causes: the Linux plugin doesn't have all the capabilities of the Windows version. the Linux plugin does not interface completely/correctly with the Linux emulation layer. the Linux emulation layer does not interface completely/ correctly with the rest of FreeBSD. I don't watch much Flash, so I almost never have the problem you describe. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
On 2/4/10, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.ukwrote: Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm [...] I don't have either of those issues. I've come across a couple of players that don't work, but all the standard ones like youtube, pbs, bbc all work perfectly for me. I would like to amemd that statement by saying they work perfectly for me except for an occasional temporary browser freeze. This occur when entering or leaving a page at which point the entire browser will hang for maybe 30 seconds then recover and perform as usual. This a random event, but probably occurs at least daily. When I upgraded one of my systems a few months ago, it had that symptom, except it happened every time I entered a page that included flash. I ended up uninstalling flash because it was too annoying and I didn't really need it on that system. More recently, I set up a system with flash and it works fine except that in YouTube I often have to refresh the page to get the video to load. For some reason the player doesn't seem to initialize when I enter the page, but reloading it always works ok. I suspect most of the problems people are having with Flash 10 have to do with lingering old libraries or something like that. A brute force rebuild of all ports might fix them. Also, pay attention to the correct make.conf settings for the Linux kernel stuff. -- -- Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
Mike Clarke wrote: On Thursday 04 February 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? thought i'd give it a last try since everything is upgraded on my desktop. /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC iplayer always comes up with a message This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later superimposed over a still image of the start of the video. YouTube videos play but without any sound. I've been using gnash with firefox, *everything* doesn't play, but the majority does. I really don't like being forced to use Linux things, and it seems that gnash nicely gets that accomplished. Note that the gnash install, right out of the port, it's broken, so read up on drivers, and *replace* (not add to) your current flash player with gnash. I found that if you enter about:plugins directly into the URL entry box on firefox, you got a whole lot of very useful info about the current state of firefox plugins. It'll tell you if there are other flash plugins which need search destroy. What you have to do is to make softlinks, but where, exactly, that's stretching my firefox knowledge. I personally, did get lucky. Maybe I should say that someone on the freebsd lists pointed me at the about:plugins, but I actually first thought it was some web page, so I had to flop about like a fish out of water for a little while. It's a html page, yes, but built directly, dynamically, by firefox. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? thought i'd give it a last try since everything is upgraded on my desktop. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? thought i'd give it a last try since everything is upgraded on my desktop. /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
