Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Ananda Samaddar wrote: You might want to wait for the next release of Gnash which is coming along nicely and will support flash videos from popular sites like Youtube, Myspace etc. It should be out in the next few months and is entirely free software as well. Well, in those next few months he might still want to use something which works, while waiting for gnash, and then switch to gnash as soon as it works well enough... A pragmatic approach to OSS is usually sensible: as far as you can, use free (as in free speech) software, if/when you can't, do what you can to promote the development of suitable free software but, in the meanwhile, use what is available to do the job. Nspluginwrapper and ndiswrapper are good surrogates, while waiting for the real thing. Bye Giacomo -- _ Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI Str. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA) Tel. (OAC): +39 070 71180 248 Fax : +39 070 71180 222 Tel. (UNICA): +39 070 675 4916 _ When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are (Freddy Mercury) _ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.
There is libswfdec, also free software. If all you want or need flash for is to view YouTube or Google Videos libswfdec and Gnash are a fine replacement for flash. It's when you come to the sites that think complete flash design with the latest codec is the best possible way to wow the customer that you need flash 9. I'd rather avoid those sites, myself. On 4/19/07, Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Ananda Samaddar wrote: You might want to wait for the next release of Gnash which is coming along nicely and will support flash videos from popular sites like Youtube, Myspace etc. It should be out in the next few months and is entirely free software as well. Well, in those next few months he might still want to use something which works, while waiting for gnash, and then switch to gnash as soon as it works well enough... A pragmatic approach to OSS is usually sensible: as far as you can, use free (as in free speech) software, if/when you can't, do what you can to promote the development of suitable free software but, in the meanwhile, use what is available to do the job. Nspluginwrapper and ndiswrapper are good surrogates, while waiting for the real thing. Bye Giacomo -- _ Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI Str. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA) Tel. (OAC): +39 070 71180 248 Fax : +39 070 71180 222 Tel. (UNICA): +39 070 675 4916 _ When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are (Freddy Mercury) _ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Robert Isaac wrote: There is libswfdec, also free software. If all you want or need flash for is to view YouTube or Google Videos libswfdec and Gnash are a fine replacement for flash. It's when you come to the sites that think complete flash design with the latest codec is the best possible way to wow the customer that you need flash 9. I'd rather avoid those sites, myself. Which means that libswfdec and Gnash are good enough for you already. You see, you fit one of the categories of my pragmatic approach :) Somebody may _need_ to access some of those sites which do not work with free flash plugins (yet) though, and while waiting for them to work they have to use what works. Some notable examples I could cite are the websites of some airline companies whose flights I cannot avoid to take every now and then... Either I waste a lot of money going through their phone service or I use a non-completely-free plugin to buy the tickets via their web site. It's just a practical matter. I still would definitely _prefer_ to use a free alternative, and will switch to it as soon as available. In the meanwhile, I use what works for me. Bye Giacomo -- _ Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI Str. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA) Tel. (OAC): +39 070 71180 248 Fax : +39 070 71180 222 Tel. (UNICA): +39 070 675 4916 _ When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are (Freddy Mercury) _ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:34:46PM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: I know cross-posting is frowned upon but I just discovered a useful item that you may like to try. http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2006/11/24/playing-youtube-videos-without-flash/ Also worth of notice is package youtube-dl. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.
On 10-Apr-2007 16:34.46 (BST), Ananda Samaddar wrote: I know cross-posting is frowned upon but I just discovered a useful item that you may like to try. http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2006/11/24/playing-youtube-videos-without-flash/ The above link is a Greasemonkey script that plays Youtube movies through MPlayer. You'll need MPlayer and the MPlayer Mozilla plugin as well as Greasemonkey installed to use the script. I'm using the unofficial Marilliat MPlayer on Etch AMD64 and it works fine for me! There's nspluginwrapper as well. I'm trying to work out if and how I can get it working on non-amd64 machines (I have a ppc machine as well as amd64, so I'd like to get it working on that as well). -- rob andrews :: pgp 0x01e00563 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 12:27, Rob Andrews wrote: There's nspluginwrapper as well. I'm trying to work out if and how I can get it working on non-amd64 machines (I have a ppc machine as well as amd64, so I'd like to get it working on that as well). You'll have a job, because nspluginwrapper is just a wrapper for x86 binaries which have been linked against 32-bit libraries. A PPC machine can't run x86 or amd64 binaries at all, never mind what libraries they're linked against -- and if you had the Source Code for the plugins in the first place, then you could just compile them for the target architecture with no need for any fancy wrapper code. -- AJS delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.
On 18-Apr-2007 11:44.45 (BST), A J Stiles wrote: There's nspluginwrapper as well. I'm trying to work out if and how I can get it working on non-amd64 machines (I have a ppc machine as well as amd64, so I'd like to get it working on that as well). You'll have a job, because nspluginwrapper is just a wrapper for x86 binaries which have been linked against 32-bit libraries. A PPC machine can't run x86 or amd64 binaries at all, never mind what libraries they're linked against -- and if you had the Source Code for the plugins in the first place, then you could just compile them for the target architecture with no need for any fancy wrapper code. Yes, I am quite aware that powerpc machines cannot run x86/amd64 code :) However, nspluginwrapper uses qemu to emulate the plugin environment on architectures where the binary cannot be natively executed. This is noted in the features section on the homepage: * Run Linux/i386 plugins through QEMU on Linux/ppc platforms -- rob andrews :: pgp 0x01e00563 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:51:11 +0100 Rob Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18-Apr-2007 11:44.45 (BST), A J Stiles wrote: There's nspluginwrapper as well. I'm trying to work out if and how I can get it working on non-amd64 machines (I have a ppc machine as well as amd64, so I'd like to get it working on that as well). You'll have a job, because nspluginwrapper is just a wrapper for x86 binaries which have been linked against 32-bit libraries. A PPC machine can't run x86 or amd64 binaries at all, never mind what libraries they're linked against -- and if you had the Source Code for the plugins in the first place, then you could just compile them for the target architecture with no need for any fancy wrapper code. Yes, I am quite aware that powerpc machines cannot run x86/amd64 code :) However, nspluginwrapper uses qemu to emulate the plugin environment on architectures where the binary cannot be natively executed. This is noted in the features section on the homepage: * Run Linux/i386 plugins through QEMU on Linux/ppc platforms -- rob andrews :: pgp 0x01e00563 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might want to wait for the next release of Gnash which is coming along nicely and will support flash videos from popular sites like Youtube, Myspace etc. It should be out in the next few months and is entirely free software as well. Ananda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Youtube on non X86 platforms.
Hello all, I know cross-posting is frowned upon but I just discovered a useful item that you may like to try. http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2006/11/24/playing-youtube-videos-without-flash/ The above link is a Greasemonkey script that plays Youtube movies through MPlayer. You'll need MPlayer and the MPlayer Mozilla plugin as well as Greasemonkey installed to use the script. I'm using the unofficial Marilliat MPlayer on Etch AMD64 and it works fine for me! regards, Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.
Ananda Samaddar wrote: Hello all, I know cross-posting is frowned upon but I just discovered a useful item that you may like to try. http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2006/11/24/playing-youtube-videos-without-flash/ The above link is a Greasemonkey script that plays Youtube movies through MPlayer. You'll need MPlayer and the MPlayer Mozilla plugin as well as Greasemonkey installed to use the script. I'm using the unofficial Marilliat MPlayer on Etch AMD64 and it works fine for me! regards, Ananda Samaddar Thank you!!! -- Regards, Jimmy Registered Penguin #380263 Registered Linux Computer #279395 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
