Stanisław Findeisen ([email protected] on 2011-05-18 09:59 +0200): > Hi! > > Is it possible to play Adobe Flash files from, for example, > YouTube.com without non-free software? [..] > However I am unable to play YouTube.com videos in Iceweasel 3.0.6. I > even tried downloading one to the filesystem and running gnash on it, > but it only displays a black rectangle. :-( > > What is the Debian recommended way, if any, to play SWF files? Playing flash in-browser with anything other than Adobe's plugin is very much a hit-and-miss thing, in my experience. I have always had much better luck with youtube-dl and mplayer than anything in-browser, including Adobe's offering.
Nowadays, it's working fine for me with gnash 0.8.9 and Firefox (iceweasel) 4, but anything older probably will not work. If I remember correctly, the Flash player needs access to the browser's cookie cache for (current) Youtube videos to work, and that access simply isn't possible in older browsers. Regards, Arno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
