On Thursday 03 August 2006 18:31, David Syphers wrote:
> On Friday 09 June 2006 16:02, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > I've been handed a few YouTube and Google Video links recently and tried
> > to watch them in FreeBSD - and had to find out that not even Firefox with
> > linuxpluginwrapper and Flash 7 is able to deal with those. Google Video
> > freezes, YouTube videos have no sound.
> >
> > There is however still a way - the good old full-linux-binary browser
> > kong-fu.
> >
> > Install linux-firefox:
>
> I saved this email in case I was ever actually forced to use Flash some
> day, and now that day has come... however, there are a number of steps that
> must have come before installing linux firefox and running linkfarm.
> Googling around led to
> http://altbit.org/pseudorandom/unixlike_translation.txt , which I followed.
> I found ( http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html ) a note that things had been
> randomly moved to /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/ , so I followed
> their directions too. Still, both native and Linux firefoxes don't even try
> to use Flash at all.
>
> Can someone who successfully has Flash working on FreeBSD (on any browser)
> let me know how to get started? Thanks,
>
> -David

You could try this thread on questions@ - it sounds as though it works, though 
I haven't tried myself - I seem to remember something about this not working 
on 5.x which is what I'm using.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-July/125955.html

Cheers,
-- 
Ian
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