Re: Adoble Flash troubles on 9.2-RELEASE
On 10/12/13 20:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 11:52 +0200, David Demelier wrote: I don't like much chrome but I'll give a try to see. +1 It's not a browser I like. Since I'm using my computer for audio production my FreeBSD isn't maintained, I need to use Linux, so I don't know if Chrome is available for FreeBSD. When I google (resp. startpage.com search) for FreeBSD and Chrome, it seems to be that the hits aren't about Chrome, but Chromium instead. Chromium doesn't include Adobe Flash, https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome . Sorry for the noise. At least we could use Adobe Flash by Chrome with FreeBSD in a virtual machine running a Linux instead of a Windows guest. Or is Chrome available for FreeBSD too? Perhaps you should post the links that don't work with the latest Linux version of Adobe Flash, so others could test if the issue is really caused by Flash Player and not by something else. To add more confusion to this fray, although it may not help with gray screen issue, the only reason chromium works (yes, just install the nspluginwrapper as per the handbook) is that it is better suited to the new pepper style Adobe is going with now. FWIW, I did put in a port to fix drm issues on any site which was stopping videos playing (again, not your specific issue, but what appears to be in discussion here) and which allows flash to work using any browser - uses linux dbus libraries (weird). Not sure of the status though. Cheers ___ 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
Adoble Flash troubles on 9.2-RELEASE
Hi, The current linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.310 version has some troubles on my machine (with Firefox). Sometimes, when a flash component is displayed and you scroll a bit the window the flash break and goes grey, you're forced to reload the page. I'm using the Intel new KMS driver if that matters, note that it never happened on my 9.1-RELEASE. Is anyone having a similar issue? Regards, David. ___ 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: Adoble Flash troubles on 9.2-RELEASE
If you really need to visit sites that need Adobe Flash, you perhaps should use the google-chrome browser. For some websites with flash content, we don't need flash anymore, just modern HTML5 capable web browsers. For *nix there never will be a current version for flashplayer again. ___ 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: Adoble Flash troubles on 9.2-RELEASE
On 12.10.2013 11:02, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If you really need to visit sites that need Adobe Flash, you perhaps should use the google-chrome browser. For some websites with flash content, we don't need flash anymore, just modern HTML5 capable web browsers. For *nix there never will be a current version for flashplayer again. Yes I know that adobe flash player for *nix is gone but I'm guessing why it worked well so much before.. I don't like much chrome but I'll give a try to see. Thanks for the hint! ___ 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 ___ 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: Adoble Flash troubles on 9.2-RELEASE
On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 11:52 +0200, David Demelier wrote: I don't like much chrome but I'll give a try to see. +1 It's not a browser I like. Since I'm using my computer for audio production my FreeBSD isn't maintained, I need to use Linux, so I don't know if Chrome is available for FreeBSD. When I google (resp. startpage.com search) for FreeBSD and Chrome, it seems to be that the hits aren't about Chrome, but Chromium instead. Chromium doesn't include Adobe Flash, https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome . Sorry for the noise. At least we could use Adobe Flash by Chrome with FreeBSD in a virtual machine running a Linux instead of a Windows guest. Or is Chrome available for FreeBSD too? Perhaps you should post the links that don't work with the latest Linux version of Adobe Flash, so others could test if the issue is really caused by Flash Player and not by something else. Regards, Ralf ___ 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: Flash failing with videos on youtube
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: On 2013-06-16 13:39, Jerry wrote: I saw the answer to this a while back, but I cannot find it now. youtube-dl -t 'filename' You can also use this trick to work on youtube directly: This video use flash player: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M84Y6VXAIaU This will give you player directly and can skip flash: http://www.youtube.com/embed/M84Y6VXAIaU This will download the video: http://www.youtube.com/v/M84Y6VXAIaU Not sure how to change format of a video that will be downloaded. You can also use http://www.offliberty.com to download audio and video tracks of web clips in mp3/mp4 format :-) Best regards, Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___ 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
Flash failing with videos on youtube
I saw the answer to this a while back, but I cannot find it now. After working fine for quite a while, this problem has started. When attempting to play videos on youtube, I am greeted with a message that states Adobe Flash Player is Required for Video Playback? It then offers me a link to the site; obviously though that link is useless in FreeBSD. I double checked everything, the ports are all up-to-date, and I ran nspluginwrapper, etcetera as specified in Chapter 7. Desktop Applications http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html Someone else had a similar problem and reported it here awhile ago and was given the solution. I am running Firefox 21.0 via the ports system on a FreeBSD-8.3 amd64 system. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ In 1900, a father came home from work to find his wife and children at the supper table. Today, a father comes home to a note: Jimmy's at baseball, Cindy's at gymnastics, I'm at adult-Ed, Pizza in fridge. ___ 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: Flash failing with videos on youtube
El día Sunday, June 16, 2013 a las 07:39:30AM -0400, Jerry escribió: I saw the answer to this a while back, but I cannot find it now. dom.ipc.plugins.enabled = false to be set via about:config in FF matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards ___ 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: Flash failing with videos on youtube
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: After working fine for quite a while, this problem has started. When attempting to play videos on youtube, I am greeted with a message that states Adobe Flash Player is Required for Video Playback? Some clips are forced to show commercials and this does not work in HTML5 even video can be served in WebM/VP8. yesterday I was working on a Linux machine with flash player and before EVERY movie I got nasty commercial, this was awful, I am happy that commercials does not work in HTML5, Vimeo is somewhat alternative but it use proprietary H.264 on the othe hand. Web multimedia is a mess, but I am happy to see Flash come to an end :-) You may want to try out the EMBED solution that I have found some time ago: https://www.tomek.cedro.info/youtube-and-html5/ Best regards, Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___ 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: Flash failing with videos on youtube
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:57:09 +0200 Matthias Apitz articulated: El día Sunday, June 16, 2013 a las 07:39:30AM -0400, Jerry escribió: I saw the answer to this a while back, but I cannot find it now. dom.ipc.plugins.enabled = false to be set via about:config in FF Perhaps that should either be the default setting, I really have no idea what else it pertains to, or clearly displayed in Chapter 7. Desktop Applications http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
Finally, I have done it. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/de-tube On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 19:08 -0400, Quartz wrote: I can work around this by downloading the files with clive and watching with mplayer, but I'd like to make this work again. To be honest, this is really the best solution for all platforms, win/mac/bsd/etc. I don't have flash installed on any of my machines: I use a plugin that downloads the mp4 and auto opens it in a local video player. This always works, you can jump/rewind without constant buffering, you don't have to deal with ads, and you don't have to deal with flash maxing out your cpu for no reason. __ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal ___ 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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
I had written an extension, it replaces the original youtube player. Now it's beta version (at least it has a name...), there is no setup, no preferences, it just replaces youtube player to videoHere the best quality/video. Code (don't even try to use master branch): https://github.com/paranormal/detube/tree/working Zip: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/de-tube/ You are free to install this addon and blame me. There another addon (written by Sukant Garg): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-my-youtube-day On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: hello, world\n I have trouble playing Youtube videos in flash format in Firefox. This has worked in the past, but for a few weeks now, the flash videos display as a b/w noise background picture with a message centered To render this video you need the Adobe Flash Player. Install latest Flash Player. Has Youtube conspired against me, you, FreeBSD, the world? :-) I'm wondering if I have screwed up something. I'm running 9.1-STABLE as of a few days ago, with up-to-date ports of emulators/linux_base-f10, www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 and www/nspluginwrapper ports on FF20.0. about:plugins says this: Shockwave Flash File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 MIME TypeDescription Suffixes application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player spl Since I haven't heard the FreeBSD community screaming Gimme back my Youtube!!!1!, I'll bite. What could the problem be? Is anyone else but me able to play flash, like for example The true science of multiple universes in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg ? Other types play just fine, like Pt1gard's 10-Question Apollo Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ I can work around this by downloading the files with clive and watching with mplayer, but I'd like to make this work again. Regards, Jens signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Flash?
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE on amd64. I have installed Flash according to the instructions in the handbook. When I do 'about:plugins' in Firefox, I get the following response: Shockwave Flash File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 MIME Type Description Suffixes application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player spl When I go to: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html it reports that Flash is installed, version 11.2.202.280, and I can see the red bouncing ball. When I go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8tSMKGbnW0 again it reports that Flash is installed correctly. When I go to: http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/info/en/help/requirements/flash.html once again, both tests run perfectly. Yet when I go to youtube.com and click on a link, it says The Adobe Flash Player is required for video playback. Get the latest Flash Player. What is wrong? ___ 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: Flash?
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 19:24 +, Walter Hurry wrote: What is wrong? It's wrong to consume crap that needs proprietary software, that isn't available for *nix, resp. it's smarter to use an OS that fit to the individual needs of the user. FreeBSD and Linux aren't a good choice, if you want to consume such stuff. Current version is 11.7, http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html . But for *nix the last version is 11.2. Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux. - http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Regards, Ralf ___ 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: Flash?
El 23/04/2013 21:24, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com escribió: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE on amd64. I have installed Flash according to the instructions in the handbook. When I do 'about:plugins' in Firefox, I get the following response: Shockwave Flash File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 MIME Type Description Suffixes application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player spl When I go to: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html it reports that Flash is installed, version 11.2.202.280, and I can see the red bouncing ball. When I go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8tSMKGbnW0 again it reports that Flash is installed correctly. When I go to: http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/info/en/help/requirements/flash.html once again, both tests run perfectly. Yet when I go to youtube.com and click on a link, it says The Adobe Flash Player is required for video playback. Get the latest Flash Player. What is wrong? That's an issue with Firefox. Search the list. There is a setting you have to change in Firefox in order to avoid that problem. ___ 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 ___ 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: Flash?
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 21:37 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: That's an issue with Firefox. Search the list. There is a setting you have to change in Firefox in order to avoid that problem. Perhaps the answer is somewhere in the thread [Solved] Youtube Flash Videos broken?, but OTOH, Flash is outdated and that could be the issue too. I don't have Flash or Gnash installed, but Firefox (20.0.1 here) anyway plays many YouTube videos. ___ 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: Flash?
El 23/04/2013 21:45, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net escribió: On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 21:37 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: That's an issue with Firefox. Search the list. There is a setting you have to change in Firefox in order to avoid that problem. Perhaps the answer is somewhere in the thread [Solved] Youtube Flash Videos broken?, but OTOH, Flash is outdated and that could be the issue too. Yep, that's the thread I was referring to. It worked for me. I don't have Flash or Gnash installed, but Firefox (20.0.1 here) anyway plays many YouTube videos. ___ 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 ___ 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: Flash?
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:37:49 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: El 23/04/2013 21:24, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com escribió: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE on amd64. I have installed Flash according to the instructions in the handbook. When I do 'about:plugins' in Firefox, I get the following response: Shockwave Flash File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 MIME Type Description Suffixes application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player spl When I go to: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html it reports that Flash is installed, version 11.2.202.280, and I can see the red bouncing ball. When I go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8tSMKGbnW0 again it reports that Flash is installed correctly. When I go to: http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/info/en/help/requirements/flash.html once again, both tests run perfectly. Yet when I go to youtube.com and click on a link, it says The Adobe Flash Player is required for video playback. Get the latest Flash Player. What is wrong? That's an issue with Firefox. Search the list. There is a setting you have to change in Firefox in order to avoid that problem. That did the trick, thanks. The PR is 177404. ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
2013-04-09 12:22, Polytropon skrev:
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:15:35 +0200, Harald Weis wrote:
I've also seen that the '-h' option did tell a lot of things, except the
the reqirement to quote the URL...
This is something you'll find in man csh or man bash. :-)
Now I get the following:
me@pollux:~ % youtube-dl -v http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xuubjIrYkc;
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Extracting video information
ERROR: unable to download video
me@pollux:~ %
You should see something like this instead:
% youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xuubjIrYkc;
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: 6xuubjIrYkc.flv
[download] 1.9% of 482.49M at 180.22k/s ETA 44:49
...
and so on.
Or something like this.
% youtube-dl -t 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xuubjIrYkc'
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Pat Metheny - Secret Story-6xuubjIrYkc.flv
[download] 0.9% of 482.49M at 457.60k/s ETA 17:50
Unable(!) to see the reason.
What version are you running?
I have youtube_dl-2012.09.27 here, not the most recent one.
Sometimes there is a problem when your version has been
obsoleted by something YouTube did change.
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Re: [Solved] Youtube Flash Videos broken?
Le Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:38:55 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt schwe...@schweikhardt.net a écrit : # We've had a thread about it in the forums, with a couple of workarounds: # http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38627 Thanks for this helpful link. It contained the solution to my problem: 1) In about:config, set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false 2) Exit and restart Firefox (really, just doing 1) did not work). Cool that works here too, nice. Thanks. I'm sure I was able to watch the following Youtube video without trick on 18 march 2013 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re9TpkdTYGw Without dom.ipc.plugins.enabled=false, Youtube says that flash is not installed. (9.1-STABLE/amd64, firefox-17.0.4,1 (firefox-esr), linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.275) Regards. ___ 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: [Solved] Youtube Flash Videos broken?
El día Monday, April 08, 2013 a las 11:04:41AM +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere escribió: Le Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:38:55 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt schwe...@schweikhardt.net a écrit : # We've had a thread about it in the forums, with a couple of workarounds: # http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38627 Thanks for this helpful link. It contained the solution to my problem: 1) In about:config, set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false 2) Exit and restart Firefox (really, just doing 1) did not work). Cool that works here too, nice. Thanks. I helped me as well. Can someone give a bit light of explanation what the parameter does in detail and why it should be set to 'false'? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards ___ 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: [Solved] Youtube Flash Videos broken?
in message 20130408093145.GA3009@tinyCurrent, wrote Matthias Apitz thusly... El día Monday, April 08, 2013 a las 11:04:41AM +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere escribió: Le Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:38:55 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt schwe...@schweikhardt.net a écrit : # We've had a thread about it in the forums, with a couple of workarounds: # http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38627 Thanks for this helpful link. It contained the solution to my problem: 1) In about:config, set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false 2) Exit and restart Firefox (really, just doing 1) did not work). Cool that works here too, nice. Thanks. I helped me as well. Can someone give a bit light of explanation what the parameter does in detail and why it should be set to 'false'? Thanks An explanation on Adobe forum ... http://forums.adobe.com/thread/666110 32d reply ... ... The crash protection feature in Firefox 3.6 is enabled for certain plugins only. The four preferences that we modified here specifies four different out-of-process plugins. They are the the NPAPI test plugin, Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime (Windows) and Microsoft Silverlight (Windows). These plugins are specified in a separate dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.filename preference by default is set to true. We can disable them by changing their value to false. And thus plugin-container.exe will not run. By default the preference dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is already set to false. So, no need to touch it. The dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs is also not important here as other values are false. Similar is on ... (skip to bottom) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/707085 (Also, I was reminded of perlipc pod related to inter-process communication in Perl.) -- ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:09:32AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: If it's just about YouTube video, why not use youtube-dl and mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos, but it tends to work for everything. :-) Can you please help me how to find the right URLs for youtube-dl ? For example on http://www.youtube.com/user/ConcertosLive/videos When I copy URLs with mouse in opera I always get youtube-dl: No match. (opera and flash work fine for playing and also for downloading the the ogg file) I definitely prefer the command line tool. Getting rid of flash would be a tremendous relief. -- Harald Weis Versailles, France ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
Harald Weis ha...@free.fr writes: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:09:32AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: If it's just about YouTube video, why not use youtube-dl and mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos, but it tends to work for everything. :-) Can you please help me how to find the right URLs for youtube-dl ? For example on http://www.youtube.com/user/ConcertosLive/videos When I copy URLs with mouse in opera I always get youtube-dl: No match. (opera and flash work fine for playing and also for downloading the the ogg file) I definitely prefer the command line tool. Getting rid of flash would be a tremendous relief. Right-click on one of the video icons, select copy link address and the cut buffer will contain the URL. Depending on your shell you may need to protect some of the characters from being interpreted. ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On 8 April 2013 11:03, Harald Weis ha...@free.fr wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:09:32AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: If it's just about YouTube video, why not use youtube-dl and mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos, but it tends to work for everything. :-) Can you please help me how to find the right URLs for youtube-dl ? For example on http://www.youtube.com/user/ConcertosLive/videos When I copy URLs with mouse in opera I always get youtube-dl: No match. (opera and flash work fine for playing and also for downloading the the ogg file) I definitely prefer the command line tool. Getting rid of flash would be a tremendous relief. youtube_dl works fine with just the video id, as in: % youtube_dl -c --restrict-filenames -o '%(title)s.%(id)s.%(ext)s' De6ejDbIcOM to download http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De6ejDbIcOM (though the full url works, as well) You may want to set --max-quality 45 (or 46)* to avoid downloading a ½GB 3072p video (as with some of the HD stuff) since youtube_dl defaults to the highest quality available. *quo vide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube -- -- ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:03:13 +0200, Harald Weis wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:09:32AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: If it's just about YouTube video, why not use youtube-dl and mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos, but it tends to work for everything. :-) Can you please help me how to find the right URLs for youtube-dl ? There is no URL. You install it from ports: # cd /usr/ports/www/youtube_dl # make install If the version in ports is not current enough (e. g. when YT has again fiddled with the format), you can usually get it from its source https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl. For example on http://www.youtube.com/user/ConcertosLive/videos When I copy URLs with mouse in opera I always get youtube-dl: No match. Make sure you use proper quoting as the URL contains characters that the shell will interpret. The common form to use youtube-dl is e. g. % youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0; Any superflous stuff in the URL will be ignored. This is the easiest way to work, e. g. from copying the URL from the URL line or via the Copy link address function; then just type 'youtube-dl ', press the middle mouse key, '' and Enter. As youtube-dl doesn't have a manpage, you can use % youtube-dl -h to get a list of supported command line options. (opera and flash work fine for playing and also for downloading the the ogg file) That's normal. :-) I definitely prefer the command line tool. What I like about this approach is that I can watch films in a usable (!) environment, which is mplayer, and not be dependent on some low-quality web player plugin. It's also nice to have interesting videos stored on the local disk so they can be watched without Internet connection. :-) Getting rid of flash would be a tremendous relief. It will happen, as soon as HTML5 is adopted more widely (currently happening especially for rich web content and the mobile market) and lawyers agree on a usable media codec. But for now, I don't actually see any problems running Flash if it is _intended_ to do so. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
Please excuse the top post, bujt you're the right guy to ask, polyt. mp3/audio files I can get. you sent me a website to get mp3's off youtube. it is probably patry my ubuntu linux and gnome, but is there a canned website that will grab a video? somebody has a Lot of westerns and I'd like to grab a couple. we can get 70 billion channels with barf comcast, but I dont see any of these old/old/old movies. [ several zillion tx. ] gary ps: yeah, I KNOW they are ===mostly=== mythic. but sometimes I just need to take a bleeping break. and so far, nothingg works. On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 03:58:30AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:03:13 +0200, Harald Weis wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:09:32AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: If it's just about YouTube video, why not use youtube-dl and mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos, but it tends to work for everything. :-) Can you please help me how to find the right URLs for youtube-dl ? There is no URL. You install it from ports: # cd /usr/ports/www/youtube_dl # make install If the version in ports is not current enough (e. g. when YT has again fiddled with the format), you can usually get it from its source https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl. For example on http://www.youtube.com/user/ConcertosLive/videos When I copy URLs with mouse in opera I always get youtube-dl: No match. Make sure you use proper quoting as the URL contains characters that the shell will interpret. The common form to use youtube-dl is e. g. % youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0; Any superflous stuff in the URL will be ignored. This is the easiest way to work, e. g. from copying the URL from the URL line or via the Copy link address function; then just type 'youtube-dl ', press the middle mouse key, '' and Enter. As youtube-dl doesn't have a manpage, you can use % youtube-dl -h to get a list of supported command line options. (opera and flash work fine for playing and also for downloading the the ogg file) That's normal. :-) I definitely prefer the command line tool. What I like about this approach is that I can watch films in a usable (!) environment, which is mplayer, and not be dependent on some low-quality web player plugin. It's also nice to have interesting videos stored on the local disk so they can be watched without Internet connection. :-) Getting rid of flash would be a tremendous relief. It will happen, as soon as HTML5 is adopted more widely (currently happening especially for rich web content and the mobile market) and lawyers agree on a usable media codec. But for now, I don't actually see any problems running Flash if it is _intended_ to do so. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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 -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:28:15 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Please excuse the top post Why? ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 03:38:16AM +, Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:28:15 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Please excuse the top post Why? because most or all email is presented in oldest posts first. it is more work to decode. [[ esp'ly if you're o lder than dirt, like me! ]] -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:57:47 +0200 Ralf Mardorf articulated: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial, before the video can be watched? Wicked! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ Video and audio are ok for this video, still without flash or gnash. Perhaps we should switch to Windows :D. SICR I have pretty much given up on using Firefox with FreeBSD on sites that utilize Flash. It usually just sucks. Sites like comedy Central are just not view-able utilizing that combination. I use my Windows PC or Laptop for those times. Plus, I can keep Flash and or Java up-to-date far easier. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:57:47 +0200 Ralf Mardorf articulated: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial, before the video can be watched? Wicked! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ Video and audio are ok for this video, still without flash or gnash. Perhaps we should switch to Windows :D. SICR I have pretty much given up on using Firefox with FreeBSD on sites that utilize Flash. It usually just sucks. Sites like comedy Central are just not view-able utilizing that combination. I use my Windows PC or Laptop for those times. Plus, I can keep Flash and or Java up-to-date far easier. Nearly the same here: I'm keeping two virtual machines on my FreeBSD laptop: a Windows 7 and a Linux one, and I'm starting the Win7 VM when I stumble across that oddball Flash-only website that would not even display on the Linux VM. This way, I'm keeping a clean and lean FreeBSD environment, unpolluted by tons of Linuxulator compat libraries needed just to make that flash plugin work. Plus, it's easier to reset the Win7 VM to a previous virus-free stage after each use... even though something like this http://www.qubes-os.org/trac would be even better, I assume. ;) -- Jerry ♔ -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 06:21 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:57:47 +0200 Ralf Mardorf articulated: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial, before the video can be watched? Wicked! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ Video and audio are ok for this video, still without flash or gnash. Perhaps we should switch to Windows :D. SICR I have pretty much given up on using Firefox with FreeBSD on sites that utilize Flash. It usually just sucks. Sites like comedy Central are just not view-able utilizing that combination. I use my Windows PC or Laptop for those times. Plus, I can keep Flash and or Java up-to-date far easier. I never needed to use Windows, I could switch from the Atari ST to *nix around ten years ago, but since around 1½ years I need to run Windows in VBox. I planed to start making music on Friday, now it's Sunday noon and I still couldn't start, because I still need to fix issues. However, I experienced less issues with *nix software, usually I run into issues regarding to hardware. Fortunately I don't care about the flash issue, if tube videos don't work, I don't watch tube videos and if flash should be needed for something else on a homepage, it for sure isn't a homepage I want to visit. Usually web pages for *nix are programmed like http://www.freebsd.org/ and very seldom like http://linux-audio.com/ but even this site doesn't expect flash. Serious homepages, e.g. from departments, usually are good programmed and commercial homepages, e.g. from the porn industry, are usually bad programmed. If users would stop visiting bad programmed sites, we would get better programmed websites, so IMO we shouldn't fix the issues others cause, it's their task to fix their websites. 2 Cents, Ralf ___ 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
[Solved] Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 05:53:17PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: # On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: # # I have trouble playing Youtube videos in flash format in Firefox. This # has worked in the past, but for a few weeks now, the flash videos # display as a b/w noise background picture with a message centered To # render this video you need the Adobe Flash Player. Install latest Flash # Player. Has Youtube conspired against me, you, FreeBSD, the world? :-) # # We've had a thread about it in the forums, with a couple of workarounds: # http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38627 Thanks for this helpful link. It contained the solution to my problem: 1) In about:config, set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false 2) Exit and restart Firefox (really, just doing 1) did not work). Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:05:19 +0200 Ralf Mardorf articulated: On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 06:21 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:57:47 +0200 Ralf Mardorf articulated: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial, before the video can be watched? Wicked! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ Video and audio are ok for this video, still without flash or gnash. Perhaps we should switch to Windows :D. SICR I have pretty much given up on using Firefox with FreeBSD on sites that utilize Flash. It usually just sucks. Sites like comedy Central are just not view-able utilizing that combination. I use my Windows PC or Laptop for those times. Plus, I can keep Flash and or Java up-to-date far easier. I never needed to use Windows, I could switch from the Atari ST to *nix around ten years ago, but since around 1½ years I need to run Windows in VBox. I planed to start making music on Friday, now it's Sunday noon and I still couldn't start, because I still need to fix issues. However, I experienced less issues with *nix software, usually I run into issues regarding to hardware. Fortunately I don't care about the flash issue, if tube videos don't work, I don't watch tube videos and if flash should be needed for something else on a homepage, it for sure isn't a homepage I want to visit. Usually web pages for *nix are programmed like http://www.freebsd.org/ and very seldom like http://linux-audio.com/ but even this site doesn't expect flash. Serious homepages, e.g. from departments, usually are good programmed and commercial homepages, e.g. from the porn industry, are usually bad programmed. If users would stop visiting bad programmed sites, we would get better programmed websites, so IMO we shouldn't fix the issues others cause, it's their task to fix their websites. This site: http://aattp.org/watch-jon-stewart-annihilate-anti-gun-control-arguments-in-this-amazing-daily-show-clip-video/ plays fine on Windows using either IE or Firefox. It also works on Ubuntu. However, it bombs out with FreeBSD and Firefox. I haven't had an opportunity to try it on a Linux system yet.. The bottom line is where exactly does the problem exist. FreeBSD users love to blame everyone else for their problems; however, is that actually the problem here or is it something else? Using Flash is way harder than it needs to be on FreeBSD. You hear FreeBSD users who claim that they never use Flash, which in itself is an interesting statement. If it doesn't work, then obviously you cannot take advantage of it. I suspect at least 50% of them are liars. The rest are more than likely expressing their sour-grapes wrath. The real goal should be to get it working and working correctly and as easily as other Operating Systems have. The world is not going to adapt to your specifications, you have to adapt to its or else fall by the wayside. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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
Youtube Flash Videos broken?
More about complications and possible cause of this problem: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/177404 ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 07:44 -0400, Jerry wrote: You hear FreeBSD users who claim that they never use Flash, which in itself is an interesting statement. If it doesn't work, then obviously you cannot take advantage of it. I suspect at least 50% of them are liars. The rest are more than likely expressing their sour-grapes wrath. No, I guess at least for media players you're mistaken. I was born in 1966 and a lot of people from my generation still own a television set, turntables etc.. Not seldom I watch several hours television at one day. I guess after watching 4 hours television, it's not hard to spare flash on the computer ;). Yes, you can miss interesting stuff without flash, but you also will miss interesting things, if you watch too much videos. In the past I used flash, I tested gnash first, but I preferred the proprietary thingy. It started as an experiment when I installed Arch Linux some weeks ago and I noticed that I can live without flash. However, I only need to run one command to get flash and on Linux AFAIK it doesn't cause issues until now. $ yaourt flashplayer 1 extra/flashplugin 11.2.202.275-1 Adobe Flash Player 2 aur/bin32-flashplayer-standalone 11.2.202.275-1 (5) Macromedia standalone flash player (nonfree) 3 aur/flashplayer-standalone 11.2.202.275-1 (134) Macromedia standalone flash player (nonfree) 4 aur/flashplayer-standalone-debug 11.2.202.275-1 (7) Standalone, debug version of Adobe Flash Player 5 aur/gnash-git 20120122-1 (Out of Date) (3) An open source flashplayer - git version == Enter n° of packages to be installed (ex: 1 2 3 or 1-3) == --- == ^C I even don't know if I have flash on FreeBSD installed, since I more often use Linux. ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 07:44:30 -0400, Jerry wrote: This site: http://aattp.org/watch-jon-stewart-annihilate-anti-gun-control-arguments-in-this-amazing-daily-show-clip-video/ plays fine on Windows using either IE or Firefox. It also works on Ubuntu. However, it bombs out with FreeBSD and Firefox. I haven't had an opportunity to try it on a Linux system yet.. Strange. Very strange. What am I doing wrong for all the years? Even though this page is slow as (insert slow stuff) on loading and polluted with ads, it plays totally fine with Opera, installed in summer 2011. This is since almost 3 years ago. Using Flash is way harder than it needs to be on FreeBSD. You are right about this. It should be a selectable (switchable) function of the browser. Do you have a proprietary plugin to have text in blue color? One to display PNG images? Another one to render text centered? No? If Flash is used instead of HTML, or as an excuse for not being able or willing to use HTML properly, and if lawyers keep fighting their patent war on codecs, then Flash is not the problem per se - it's the way it is (ab)used. Imagine you could treat it as a first class browser functionality. Like displaying images or rendering text. You want to use it? It's already part of the browser, properly maintained to work with the browser, indepdent of lower-level system components. You do _not_ want to see any Flash stuff? One click to disable it. That would be the ideal solution, as it is possible with _everything else_ except Flash. You hear FreeBSD users who claim that they never use Flash, which in itself is an interesting statement. No, it's not that interesting. For example, I have kept two browsers in the past: Firefox with no Flash, and Opera with Flash. So whenever a non-Flash experience was desired, I just switched the browser, and no Flash has been used. Also, for specific things, using programs to download video and then watch it locally with mplayer (much more comfortable than all those web players) has been possible for many years. If it doesn't work, then obviously you cannot take advantage of it. I suspect at least 50% of them are liars. The rest are more than likely expressing their sour-grapes wrath. That's quite possible. The real goal should be to get it working and working correctly and as easily as other Operating Systems have. I actually don't know where the problem is: It _is_ working correctly and easily as on other operating systems and even in comparison to Windows. The world is not going to adapt to your specifications, you have to adapt to its or else fall by the wayside. And those who _always_ go with the flow will never reach the source. ;-) To educated people, Flash is just a tool, and they can answer the question what it is good for, and what it is not the tool for, and additionally how to properly use it. Considering that Flash has had 4 hits among the top 10 of security threats, like Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Gain access to sensitive data. Highly Critical. and Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Bypass security systems. Gain access to sensitive data. Extremely Critical., there might be a reason not to use it - it depends. It _always_ depends. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:05:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If users would stop visiting bad programmed sites, we would get better programmed websites, so IMO we shouldn't fix the issues others cause, it's their task to fix their websites. There's hope in browsers implementing the Flash-like functionalities using HTML5, which has become important due to the growing markets in tablets and smartphones (the mobile web where Flash doesn't play a significant role). One of the problems is media codecs (where lawyers fight), another one is the availability of design and development environments for non-technical users who normally use pirated copies of some Adobe programs to create Flash content for (or instead of) HTML-based web pages. Those who actually _pay_ for their tools often tend to deliver a much better user experience even by using Flash. As I said, it's just a tool, but a tool by itself doesn't get the work done, you need to properly use it. Flash is already on its way into the coffin, it will be much more profitable (and essential to stay in business) to publish content in a more portable way. In my opinion, HTML5 is the way to go, as soon as they got the mentioned main problems out of the way. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
Youtube Flash Videos broken?
hello, world\n I have trouble playing Youtube videos in flash format in Firefox. This has worked in the past, but for a few weeks now, the flash videos display as a b/w noise background picture with a message centered To render this video you need the Adobe Flash Player. Install latest Flash Player. Has Youtube conspired against me, you, FreeBSD, the world? :-) I'm wondering if I have screwed up something. I'm running 9.1-STABLE as of a few days ago, with up-to-date ports of emulators/linux_base-f10, www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 and www/nspluginwrapper ports on FF20.0. about:plugins says this: Shockwave Flash File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 MIME TypeDescription Suffixes application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player spl Since I haven't heard the FreeBSD community screaming Gimme back my Youtube!!!1!, I'll bite. What could the problem be? Is anyone else but me able to play flash, like for example The true science of multiple universes in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg ? Other types play just fine, like Pt1gard's 10-Question Apollo Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ I can work around this by downloading the files with clive and watching with mplayer, but I'd like to make this work again. Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial, before the video can be watched? Wicked! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ Video and audio are ok for this video, still without flash or gnash. ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial, before the video can be watched? Wicked! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ Video and audio are ok for this video, still without flash or gnash. Perhaps we should switch to Windows :D. SICR ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:39:11 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: Since I haven't heard the FreeBSD community screaming Gimme back my Youtube!!!1!, I'll bite. What could the problem be? Is anyone else but me able to play flash, like for example The true science of multiple universes in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg ? The video has a ad overlay (can skip after a few seconds), video itself plays fine here. Note that I'm providing you this reference from the past: I'm using Opera with the Linux Flash plugin (installed as described in the handbook), and the versions are opera-11.50, opera-linuxplugins-11.50, and linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5, installed in summer 2011. So I haven't changed things, and it still works, because the rule is: Never touch a running system. ;-) Other types play just fine, like Pt1gard's 10-Question Apollo Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ Yes, plays fine. I can work around this by downloading the files with clive and watching with mplayer, but I'd like to make this work again. If it's just about YouTube video, why not use youtube-dl and mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos, but it tends to work for everything. :-) I cannot provide a reference regarding Firefox (with Flash installed as described in the Handbook) because it freezes mny system (faulty GPU). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
I can work around this by downloading the files with clive and watching with mplayer, but I'd like to make this work again. To be honest, this is really the best solution for all platforms, win/mac/bsd/etc. I don't have flash installed on any of my machines: I use a plugin that downloads the mp4 and auto opens it in a local video player. This always works, you can jump/rewind without constant buffering, you don't have to deal with ads, and you don't have to deal with flash maxing out your cpu for no reason. __ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: I have trouble playing Youtube videos in flash format in Firefox. This has worked in the past, but for a few weeks now, the flash videos display as a b/w noise background picture with a message centered To render this video you need the Adobe Flash Player. Install latest Flash Player. Has Youtube conspired against me, you, FreeBSD, the world? :-) We've had a thread about it in the forums, with a couple of workarounds: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38627 ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
in message 20130407000932.678efc0d.free...@edvax.de, wrote Polytropon thusly... On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:39:11 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: ... Is anyone else but me able to play flash, like for example The true science of multiple universes in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg ? The video has a ad overlay (can skip after a few seconds), video itself plays fine here. Note that I'm providing you this reference from the past: I'm using Opera with the Linux Flash plugin (installed as described in the handbook), and the versions are opera-11.50, opera-linuxplugins-11.50, and linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5, installed in summer 2011. The video played fine in Firefox (firefox-17.0.3,1) Shockwave Flash (11.1 r102) plugin (there is also a FutureSplash Player plugin). Initially there was a purple window with small circular (play) button but nothing was being displayed; audio of the original video started playing by itself. Few seconds later, the purple window disappeared. Opera (opera-12.14), OTOH, reported that flash plugin (opera-linuxplugins-12.14; linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.275) crashed. Other types play just fine, like Pt1gard's 10-Question Apollo Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ Yes, plays fine. No problem here either with either of the browsers. - parv -- ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
in message 5160aaf9.2020...@sneakertech.com, wrote Quartz thusly... I can work around this by downloading the files with clive and watching with mplayer, but I'd like to make this work again. To be honest, this is really the best solution for all platforms, win/mac/bsd/etc. I don't have flash installed on any of my machines: I use a plugin that downloads the mp4 and auto opens it in a local video player. Is the plugin that you speak of called Download YouTube Videos as MP4? I have tried some extensions -- e.g. Flash and Video Download, Download Helper -- that require a bit of video to be played initially before it can be downloaded (outside of YouTube; for YouTube videos, I prefer to use youtube_dl). - Parv -- ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 15:23:49 -1000, Parv wrote: I have tried some extensions -- e.g. Flash and Video Download, Download Helper -- that require a bit of video to be played initially before it can be downloaded (outside of YouTube; for YouTube videos, I prefer to use youtube_dl). Yes, Download Helper is very prominent in combination with Firefox. However, it requires interactivity within the browser. In case that's not desired, youtube-dl can help. For non-YT-videos, get-flash-videos (a per script) works in many cases. The result FLV file can be played comfortably with mplayer. I'm not sure in how far this combination can be integrated with the web browser... Again, it's worth noting that you should not touch a running system. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: USB Flash Drive in Stock
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Re: USB Flash Drive in Stock
Hi, Glad to hear that you're on the market for usb driver memory, we are experienced in this field for about 8 years. There is much experience in usb driver memory with higher quality. What’s more, we have our own RD to meet any of your requirements. There are usb driver memory in stock and the quotation as follows: 1GB: EXW US$2.10, 2GB: EXW US$2.42, 4GB: EXW US$2.91, 8GB: EXW US$3.55, 16GB: EXW US$6.13, 32GB: EXW US$10.49, 64GB: EXW US$ 22.26, 128GB: EXW US$ 25.49, 256GB: EXW US$30.33 M.O.Q: 500PCS Please contact us without any hesitation if there is anything we can do for you. Look forward to hearing from you and establishing friendly business relationship between us. Best Regards. Jane2 attachment: USB_Flash_Drive.jpg ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
In message 5153a2fd.8020...@sneakertech.com, you wrote: Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 do just as well? Modern systems can read and write far more than 512 bytes per operation. Sticking with 512 would work perfectly fine, but you'd be imposing an unnecessary bottleneck and the copy would be a lot slower overall. Whether 10K is optimal or not depends on the exact hardware you're messing with (it looks pretty low to me, I'd suggest more like 1M). I agree. And 10 kibibytes is probably quite a bit less than optimal. I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Thank you for your reply. Regards, rfg ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Er, don't take my word for law: I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea for most systems, I'm not even sure if it's optimal for mine. I did a single test with three random values at different orders of magnitude and picked the fastest. I do think that 10k is probably way under the right value, but someone should do proper testing on a variety of hardware before changing all the docs. As for the conv=sync option, I'm not convinced it's necessary either way. I've dd'd zillions of images to various media over the years and have never specified a conv parameter and I've never had problems. I don't think modern systems really care what the end is padded with (provided nothing is corrupt of course). Someone with more experience would need to chime in on this. __ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:27:43 -0400 Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote: I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Er, don't take my word for law: I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea for most systems, I'm not even sure if it's optimal for mine. I did a single test with three random values at different orders of magnitude and picked the fastest. I do think that 10k is probably way under the right value, but someone should do proper testing on a variety of hardware before changing all the docs. The 1M will work fine, it's way bigger than any physical write. In theory the performance should max out when the block size matches the maximum physical write size of the controller (often 64K), but that assumes zero read latency on the data feed so in practice larger block sizes help, but except for things like tape they don't help much once you pass the device/controller max write block size. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
In message 5153feff.4090...@sneakertech.com, you wrote: I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Er, don't take my word for law: I didn't. I won't. I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea Any size which is an exact multiple of the physical block size for the target device should provide performance which is as good as it gets. I googled around and read various comments. Some of these kinds of devices have a physical block size of 64KiB. Some have 128KiB. Some have 256KiB. Some have 1MiB. For all of these devices, seting blocksize to 1MiB will provide optimal performance with at worst only a _relatively_ tiny waste of space. As for the conv=sync option, I'm not convinced it's necessary either way. Neither am I, but I would rather have it there, than not and take chances. It won't hurt anything, and it appears that it _may_ perhaps help. I don't think modern systems really care what the end is padded with That wasn't my concern. My concern is that I personally do not know what the officially defined semantics are in cases where dd is asked to copy data in a specific input block size _and_ the actual data available from the input device doesn't perfectly fill up that last block. It is possible, I would guess, that dd may notice the EOF occuring before it has filled up an entire input buffer, and then just quit at that point, _without_ writing the partial last block to the output device. It seems to me that conv=sync is cheap insurance against this possibility. I have always been a belt and suspenders kind of guy. Regards, rfg ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
On 03/28/13 10:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 5153feff.4090...@sneakertech.com, you wrote: I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Er, don't take my word for law: I didn't. I won't. I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea Any size which is an exact multiple of the physical block size for the target device should provide performance which is as good as it gets. I googled around and read various comments. Some of these kinds of devices have a physical block size of 64KiB. Some have 128KiB. Some have 256KiB. Some have 1MiB. For all of these devices, seting blocksize to 1MiB will provide optimal performance with at worst only a _relatively_ tiny waste of space. As for the conv=sync option, I'm not convinced it's necessary either way. Neither am I, but I would rather have it there, than not and take chances. It won't hurt anything, and it appears that it _may_ perhaps help. I don't think modern systems really care what the end is padded with That wasn't my concern. My concern is that I personally do not know what the officially defined semantics are in cases where dd is asked to copy data in a specific input block size _and_ the actual data available from the input device doesn't perfectly fill up that last block. It is possible, I would guess, that dd may notice the EOF occuring before it has filled up an entire input buffer, and then just quit at that point, _without_ writing the partial last block to the output device. It will attempt to write a short block. E.g. arthur@fileserver[2] ls -l t.pdf -rw-rw-r-- 1 arthur arthur 233812 Feb 18 12:26 t.pdf arthur@fileserver[2] dd if=t.pdf of=/dev/null bs=1k 228+1 records in 228+1 records out 233812 bytes transferred in 0.036731 secs (6365521 bytes/sec) Those +1 records are the final short block. It seems to me that conv=sync is cheap insurance against this possibility. It's used as an insurance against output devices which have a fixed (or in the case of tape, a minimum) block size. If the short block is not an exact integer multiple of the device block size then the final write will fail. conv=sync and a bs (or obs) that's a strict multiple of block size prevents the problem. That's exactly your use case. I have always been a belt and suspenders kind of guy. Show me the experienced sysadmin who isn't. Invariably learnt the hard way. :-} ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
In message 51543b7a.4030...@qeng-ho.org, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 03/28/13 10:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: It is possible, I would guess, that dd may notice the EOF occuring before it has filled up an entire input buffer, and then just quit at that point, _without_ writing the partial last block to the output device. It will attempt to write a short block. E.g. arthur@fileserver[2] ls -l t.pdf -rw-rw-r-- 1 arthur arthur 233812 Feb 18 12:26 t.pdf arthur@fileserver[2] dd if=t.pdf of=/dev/null bs=1k 228+1 records in 228+1 records out 233812 bytes transferred in 0.036731 secs (6365521 bytes/sec) Those +1 records are the final short block. OK. Thanks. That's definitely good to know. I wonder if this behavior is documented in the man page. (It certainly should be, if it isn't already.) It seems to me that conv=sync is cheap insurance against this possibility. It's used as an insurance against output devices which have a fixed (or in the case of tape, a minimum) block size. If the short block is not an exact integer multiple of the device block size then the final write will fail. Right. I understand. conv=sync and a bs (or obs) that's a strict multiple of block size prevents the problem. That's exactly your use case. Right. Regards, rfg ___ 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
Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
I've never used any FreeBSD memstick image before, but now I have reason to do so. I'm reading the instructions for creating a bootable memstick that are located on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html which include the following example of how to perform the copy: # dd if=FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync Question: Why exactly is conv=sync is there? Also, in practice what does it actually do? (I've used dd plenty in my lifetime, but never found any reason to use conv= at all. I always thought that it was... mostly... just an archaic leftover from the days when some big iron used EBCDIC that needed to get converted to ASCII or vise versa.) The dd man page describes the sync type of conversion thusly: Pad every input block to the input buffer size. Spaces are used for pad bytes if a block oriented conversion value is specified, otherwise NUL bytes are used. Ummm... ok. WTF is a block oriented conversion value? How would I know if I had specified one? Question: Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 do just as well? Regards, rfg ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
In the last episode (Mar 27), Ronald F. Guilmette said: I've never used any FreeBSD memstick image before, but now I have reason to do so. I'm reading the instructions for creating a bootable memstick that are located on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html which include the following example of how to perform the copy: # dd if=FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync Question: Why exactly is conv=sync is there? Question: Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 do just as well? It looks like someone just copied a dd commandline from somewhere else, maybe something to do with tar files (since tar defaults to a 10k blocksize when writing to tape). conv=sync isn't needed since the source file is already a multiple of the target device blocksize (512 bytes), and bs=64k would be much faster when writing to cheap flash devices like USB sticks since they don't have a write cache and individual writes are slowish. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
On 28/03/2013 8:10 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Question: Why exactly is conv=sync is there? I found this on http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/dd.1.asp If you specified conv=sync and this input block is smaller than the specified input block size, dd pads it to the specified size with null bytes. When you also specify a block or unblock conversion, dd uses spaces instead of null bytes. So the last block of output gets padded with 0x00 at the end to fill the input block size (from bs=...) Question: Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 do just as well? It would, but then you would have FILESIZE/512 reads and writes instead of FILESIZE/10240 reads and writes - 20 times more. The end result is the same, but the large bs makes the operation go faster. I routinely use bs=655360 simply because it is a big number divisible by 512, which I can easily remember. 512000 would do just as well, though... Danny ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 do just as well? Modern systems can read and write far more than 512 bytes per operation. Sticking with 512 would work perfectly fine, but you'd be imposing an unnecessary bottleneck and the copy would be a lot slower overall. Whether 10K is optimal or not depends on the exact hardware you're messing with (it looks pretty low to me, I'd suggest more like 1M). __ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal ___ 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
USB Flash Drive in Stock
Hi, Glad to hear that you're on the market for usb driver memory, we are experienced in this field for about 8 years. There is much experience in usb driver memory with higher quality. What’s more, we have our own RD to meet any of your requirements. There are usb driver memory in stock and the quotation as follows: 1GB: EXW US$2.10, 2GB: EXW US$2.42, 4GB: EXW US$2.91, 8GB: EXW US$3.55, 16GB: EXW US$6.13, 32GB: EXW US$10.49, 64GB: EXW US$ 22.26, 128GB: EXW US$ 25.49, 256GB: EXW US$30.33 M.O.Q: 500PCS Please contact us without any hesitation if there is anything we can do for you. Look forward to hearing from you and establishing friendly business relationship between us. Best Regards. Jane2 attachment: USB_Flash_Drive.jpg ___ 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
Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues
I've got a Crucial m4 SSD which needs a firmware upgrade. From the Crucial website I've downloaded an image which supposedly is an iso image bootable from either CD or a usb stick. Since the fbsd install images are different for booting from cd and usb flash drives (the flash image is significantly larger), I'm wondering if there's anything I need to be aware of when attempting this. I tried copying the ssd firmware update image to a flash drive using: dd if=firmwareupdate.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=64k which seemed to work. However, when I attempt to boot the device, BIOS complains about it not being bootable and says to fix it or select something else which is bootable. I know the drive can be bootable because I used it for the fbsd 9.1 usb boot image and it worked fine. The documentation for the SSD firmware upgrade says Create a Bootable USB Drive with the following steps (summarized here, no real content omitted): 1. Start with a newly formatted USB drive 2. Open a USB installer program. If you don't have one, you may download a free one such as Universal USB Installer... 3. If you are using the Universal USB Installer, then: 3a. At the Step 1 drop down box, scroll to the bottom and select the last option: Try Unlisted Linux ISO 3b. Go to step 2 (in the pgm) and browse to the firmware ISO that you downloaded earlier 3c. Go to step 3 (in the pgm) and select the flash drive on which you want to install the ISO 3d. Click the Create button and click Format E:\Drive 3e. A sequence of screens will appear and disappear... The above is all highly confusing to me, as it's not clear who's doing what. I'm guessing the Universal Installer Program actually writes a boot block and then the bootable image someplace beyond that, and the iso image supplied is not really a complete bootable image for a flash drive -- it's missing the boot blocks. Can anyone suggest a way to create a bootable flash drive using this image? ___ 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: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Aitken Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 12:55 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues I've got a Crucial m4 SSD which needs a firmware upgrade. From the Crucial website I've downloaded an image which supposedly is an iso image bootable from either CD or a usb stick. Since the fbsd install images are different for booting from cd and usb flash drives (the flash image is significantly larger), I'm wondering if there's anything I need to be aware of when attempting this. I tried copying the ssd firmware update image to a flash drive using: dd if=firmwareupdate.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=64k which seemed to work. However, when I attempt to boot the device, BIOS complains about it not being bootable and says to fix it or select something else which is bootable. I know the drive can be bootable because I used it for the fbsd 9.1 usb boot image and it worked fine. The documentation for the SSD firmware upgrade says Create a Bootable USB Drive with the following steps (summarized here, no real content omitted): 1. Start with a newly formatted USB drive 2. Open a USB installer program. If you don't have one, you may download a free one such as Universal USB Installer... 3. If you are using the Universal USB Installer, then: 3a. At the Step 1 drop down box, scroll to the bottom and select the last option: Try Unlisted Linux ISO 3b. Go to step 2 (in the pgm) and browse to the firmware ISO that you downloaded earlier 3c. Go to step 3 (in the pgm) and select the flash drive on which you want to install the ISO 3d. Click the Create button and click Format E:\Drive 3e. A sequence of screens will appear and disappear... The above is all highly confusing to me, as it's not clear who's doing what. I'm guessing the Universal Installer Program actually writes a boot block and then the bootable image someplace beyond that, and the iso image supplied is not really a complete bootable image for a flash drive -- it's missing the boot blocks. Can anyone suggest a way to create a bootable flash drive using this image? ___ 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 Please see the below site for a script to convert the .ISO into a .IMG that can be dd written to the thumb drive http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4361 ___ 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: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues
On 02/01/13 11:03, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Aitken Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 12:55 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues I've got a Crucial m4 SSD which needs a firmware upgrade. From the Crucial website I've downloaded an image which supposedly is an iso image bootable from either CD or a usb stick. Since the fbsd install images are different for booting from cd and usb flash drives (the flash image is significantly larger), I'm wondering if there's anything I need to be aware of when attempting this. I tried copying the ssd firmware update image to a flash drive using: dd if=firmwareupdate.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=64k which seemed to work. However, when I attempt to boot the device, BIOS complains about it not being bootable and says to fix it or select something else which is bootable. I know the drive can be bootable because I used it for the fbsd 9.1 usb boot image and it worked fine. The documentation for the SSD firmware upgrade says Create a Bootable USB Drive with the following steps (summarized here, no real content omitted): 1. Start with a newly formatted USB drive 2. Open a USB installer program. If you don't have one, you may download a free one such as Universal USB Installer... 3. If you are using the Universal USB Installer, then: 3a. At the Step 1 drop down box, scroll to the bottom and select the last option: Try Unlisted Linux ISO 3b. Go to step 2 (in the pgm) and browse to the firmware ISO that you downloaded earlier 3c. Go to step 3 (in the pgm) and select the flash drive on which you want to install the ISO 3d. Click the Create button and click Format E:\Drive 3e. A sequence of screens will appear and disappear... The above is all highly confusing to me, as it's not clear who's doing what. I'm guessing the Universal Installer Program actually writes a boot block and then the bootable image someplace beyond that, and the iso image supplied is not really a complete bootable image for a flash drive -- it's missing the boot blocks. Can anyone suggest a way to create a bootable flash drive using this image? ___ 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 Please see the below site for a script to convert the .ISO into a .IMG that can be dd written to the thumb drive http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4361 Thanks, that was a help. However, when it boots, I get the following: No /boot/loader FreeBSD/x86 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel boot: I can mount the thumb drive as a ufs file system, which looks like this: /boot/ solinux/ boot.cat boot2880.img bootmsg.txt isolinux.bin isolinux.cfg memdisk splash.lss /legal.txt /revision.txt Assuming this is all good as a stand-alone linux image, what do I need to enter at the boot: prompt to get it to boot? It's not clear to me what the code to be booted is. The isolinux.cfg file looks like this: PROMPT 1 TIMEOUT 30 DEFAULT default DISPLAY bootMsg.txt LABEL default KERNEL memdisk append initrd=boot2880.img floppy raw LABEL alternate KERNEL memdisk append initrd=boot2880.img floppy Thanks for any hints... Gary ___ 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: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: On 02/01/13 11:03, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Please see the below site for a script to convert the .ISO into a .IMG that can be dd written to the thumb drive http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4361 That looks to be specific to converting a FreeBSD installer CD to memory stick... which of course is not needed any more. The implications of trying to custom build an SSD firmware update image from a CD could be big, and it's really not something to experiment with unless you feel lucky. From a user support standpoint, the first thing to do is send a Why aren't you supporting your users with a memory stick firmware update? Many people no longer have CD drives. Practically speaking, that is not likely to result in a quick result, or possibly any result. So use a program they recommend, or use an external CD drive to update the firmware. ___ 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: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues
If I understand correctly, it is iso image from ssd manufacturer. They tend to think everybody uses win and has cd drive. Quick search might give easy answer, if win/linux box is available. You could try out unetbootin. Tutorial says it takes an image and makes bootable usb stick. Best regards Zoran ___ 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: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues
On 02/01/13 22:06, Zoran Kolic wrote: If I understand correctly, it is iso image from ssd manufacturer. They tend to think everybody uses win and has cd drive. Quick search might give easy answer, if win/linux box is available. You could try out unetbootin. Tutorial says it takes an image and makes bootable usb stick. On 02/01/13 17:05, Warren Block wrote: The implications of trying to custom build an SSD firmware update image from a CD could be big, and it's really not something to experiment with unless you feel lucky. From a user support standpoint, the first thing to do is send a Why aren't you supporting your users with a memory stick firmware update? Many people no longer have CD drives. Practically speaking, that is not likely to result in a quick result, or possibly any result. So use a program they recommend, or use an external CD drive to update the firmware. The mfg claims the iso image is suitable for booting either from CD or a usb stick; with the caveat that you use some magic software to write the bootable usb stick. I guess I'll just find a way to write a CD. ___ 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
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Re: nvidia and flash plugin problem
Le Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:13:11 +0930, Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz a écrit : I have a GT 520 with 9.0 amd64 and found that v304.43 refused to run my second monitor so I went back to v295. Did you check the resolution of the second monitor? Here on my box, v304 does not handle any more the previous resolution used: http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-x11/2012-09/msg00067.html Regards. ___ 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: nvidia and flash plugin problem
On 03/10/2012 04:46, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I have a nvidia GT 630 and use the flash plugin, I've got a very strange problem, on youtube (or any flash video), the colors are just broken. This is happening on a FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 box with linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.238 nvidia-driver-304.51 That may be an issue with v304. I'm guessing you had no problems with v295 drivers. I have a GT 520 with 9.0 amd64 and found that v304.43 refused to run my second monitor so I went back to v295. ___ 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: nvidia and flash plugin problem
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2012-September/002066.html This is very much related. ___ 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
nvidia and flash plugin problem
Hello, I have a nvidia GT 630 and use the flash plugin, I've got a very strange problem, on youtube (or any flash video), the colors are just broken. See: 1. http://markand.malikania.fr/1.png 2. http://markand.malikania.fr/2.png On the second picture, the man is supposed to wear a cyan shirt! One thing more, it is *very* *very* strange, if I open a new firefox tab, I can see some bits of the video frame in the new tab! This is happening on a FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 box with linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.238 nvidia-driver-304.51 Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ 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: nvidia and flash plugin problem
On 02/10/2012 21:16, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I have a nvidia GT 630 and use the flash plugin, I've got a very strange problem, on youtube (or any flash video), the colors are just broken. See: 1. http://markand.malikania.fr/1.png 2. http://markand.malikania.fr/2.png On the second picture, the man is supposed to wear a cyan shirt! One thing more, it is *very* *very* strange, if I open a new firefox tab, I can see some bits of the video frame in the new tab! This is happening on a FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 box with linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.238 nvidia-driver-304.51 Cheers, After some research, it seems to be a general bug in the adobe flash plugin, to fix it, Right click on a video, click settings and disable hardware acceleration. -- David Demelier ___ 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: Flash in Firefox
On Tuesday 31 July 2012 00:42:42 Jeff Tipton wrote: On 07/31/2012 05:18, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:55:46 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Manish Jain wrote: Okay, so can you please go to the URL below and see whether the bubbles work for you ? http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html [...] Works here. amd64, firefox-14.0.1,1 linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.236_1 Set up as the Handbook describes. Also works here, FreeBSD/i386 8.2-STABLE of August 2011, setup according to the Handbook, with the difference that I'm using Opera here with the following ports: opera-11.50 opera-linuxplugins-11.50 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5 And it works here. chromium-15.0.874.121 OR midori-0.4.2 linux-f10-flashplugin-11.1r102.55 Setup as per Handbook. I also have IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.1.4) (for Java applets, also following setup according to Handbook) but I don't think it makes difference here. -Jeff ___ 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 Works on Opera here too but after updtae Firefox to 14.0.1 doesn't work on Firefox. Ans as I red on Linux forums they have a problem with Firefox 14.0.1 too. Mitja http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa ___ 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: Flash in Firefox
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:20:13 -0500 ajtiM articulated: Works on Opera here too but after updtae Firefox to 14.0.1 doesn't work on Firefox. Ans as I red on Linux forums they have a problem with Firefox 14.0.1 too. This one is not working with Firefox 14.0.1 either. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/26/jon-stewart-you-didnt-build-that_n_1705264.html?ir=Politicsncid=edlinkusaolp0009utm_hp_ref=fbsrc=spcomm_ref=false#sb=3507831,b=facebook -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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: Flash in Firefox
On Tuesday 31 July 2012 11:44:32 Jerry wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:20:13 -0500 ajtiM articulated: Works on Opera here too but after updtae Firefox to 14.0.1 doesn't work on Firefox. Ans as I red on Linux forums they have a problem with Firefox 14.0.1 too. This one is not working with Firefox 14.0.1 either. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/26/jon-stewart-you-didnt-build-that_n _1705264.html?ir=Politicsncid=edlinkusaolp0009utm_hp_ref=fbsrc=spco mm_ref=false#sb=3507831,b=facebook He is good. It works works on Firefox 14.0.1 now. What I did was again run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and it works. Mitja http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa ___ 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
Flash in Firefox
I've not experienced any problem with sites that use Flash, including Youtube. Hi Jeff, Okay, so can you please go to the URL below and see whether the bubbles work for you ? http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html I don't have a problem with YouTube either. But if the flash at the URL above works for you, I request you to kindly share with me the ports I need to install. I spent a lot of time, energy and bandwidth installing/reinstalling over a dozen ports, including opera. But neither opera nor firefox on my system work for the subject URL Please send a cc of your reply to me at bourne.ident...@hotmail.com Thanks -- Regards, Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 ___ 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: Flash in Firefox
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Manish Jain wrote: I've not experienced any problem with sites that use Flash, including Youtube. Hi Jeff, Okay, so can you please go to the URL below and see whether the bubbles work for you ? recent linux-flash 12.x do not work with any recent version of firefox when the server uses the standard flowplayer set-up (with JS). It does work with flowplayer when used with the flowplayer alternate configuration which is pure html5. Of course, as a user you are SOL if a site has elected to use the JS version of flowplayer. Rolling linux-flash back 6 months or a year will fix this, and it is hoped it will get fixed when linux-flash is bumped to 13.x Please send a cc of your reply to me at bourne.ident...@hotmail.com -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ 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: Flash in Firefox
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Manish Jain wrote: I've not experienced any problem with sites that use Flash, including Youtube. Okay, so can you please go to the URL below and see whether the bubbles work for you ? http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html I don't have a problem with YouTube either. But if the flash at the URL above works for you, I request you to kindly share with me the ports I need to install. I spent a lot of time, energy and bandwidth installing/reinstalling over a dozen ports, including opera. But neither opera nor firefox on my system work for the subject URL Works here. amd64, firefox-14.0.1,1 linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.236_1 Set up as the Handbook describes. ___ 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: Flash in Firefox
On Monday 30 July 2012 15:55:46 Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Manish Jain wrote: I've not experienced any problem with sites that use Flash, including Youtube. Okay, so can you please go to the URL below and see whether the bubbles work for you ? http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html I don't have a problem with YouTube either. But if the flash at the URL above works for you, I request you to kindly share with me the ports I need to install. I spent a lot of time, energy and bandwidth installing/reinstalling over a dozen ports, including opera. But neither opera nor firefox on my system work for the subject URL Works here. amd64, firefox-14.0.1,1 linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.236_1 Set up as the Handbook describes. ___ 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 It doesn't work on my computer: FreeBSD 9.0 Release, KDE 4.8.4 I updated Firefox 13 to 14.0.1 and flash doesn't work anymore (on Opera works). In pluginred.dat I have: [INVALID] /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so:$ 1336714805000:$ On the previous version of Firefox I didn't have a problem with the same version of flash plugin. Mitja http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa ___ 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: Flash in Firefox
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, ajtiM wrote: It doesn't work on my computer: FreeBSD 9.0 Release, KDE 4.8.4 I updated Firefox 13 to 14.0.1 and flash doesn't work anymore (on Opera works). In pluginred.dat I have: [INVALID] /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so:$ 1336714805000:$ On the previous version of Firefox I didn't have a problem with the same version of flash plugin. Is that linux-f10-flashplugin10 or linux-f10-flashplugin11? ___ 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: Flash in Firefox
On Monday 30 July 2012 16:49:09 Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, ajtiM wrote: It doesn't work on my computer: FreeBSD 9.0 Release, KDE 4.8.4 I updated Firefox 13 to 14.0.1 and flash doesn't work anymore (on Opera works). In pluginred.dat I have: [INVALID] /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so:$ 1336714805000:$ On the previous version of Firefox I didn't have a problem with the same version of flash plugin. Is that linux-f10-flashplugin10 or linux-f10-flashplugin11? It is linuxf10-flashplugin11 Mitja http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa ___ 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: Flash in Firefox
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:55:46 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Manish Jain wrote: Okay, so can you please go to the URL below and see whether the bubbles work for you ? http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html [...] Works here. amd64, firefox-14.0.1,1 linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.236_1 Set up as the Handbook describes. Also works here, FreeBSD/i386 8.2-STABLE of August 2011, setup according to the Handbook, with the difference that I'm using Opera here with the following ports: opera-11.50 opera-linuxplugins-11.50 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Flash in Firefox
On 07/31/2012 05:18, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:55:46 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Manish Jain wrote: Okay, so can you please go to the URL below and see whether the bubbles work for you ? http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html [...] Works here. amd64, firefox-14.0.1,1 linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.236_1 Set up as the Handbook describes. Also works here, FreeBSD/i386 8.2-STABLE of August 2011, setup according to the Handbook, with the difference that I'm using Opera here with the following ports: opera-11.50 opera-linuxplugins-11.50 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5 And it works here. chromium-15.0.874.121 OR midori-0.4.2 linux-f10-flashplugin-11.1r102.55 Setup as per Handbook. I also have IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.1.4) (for Java applets, also following setup according to Handbook) but I don't think it makes difference here. -Jeff ___ 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: How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD, 8.2? Moving on to the next problem :-) - Flash in Firefox
Hi, Thanks for your inputs. I have finally got FreeBSD to speak to the internet. Now I have one more problem before I can live in peace. I am fond of a game hosted via the Discovery channel's website : http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html The game needs Adobe flash player. So I installed linux-f10-flashplugin11. But firefox 5.0 does not seem to integrate with it well. I then tried installing a couple of more ports, including swfdec and gnash. Still firefox won't play the game. Is there something special I need to do ? Thanks for any help. -- Regards, Manish Jain +91-99620-10329 ___ 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: How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD, 8.2? Moving on to the next problem :-) - Flash in Firefox
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:35:06 +0530 Manish Jain articulated: Thanks for your inputs. I have finally got FreeBSD to speak to the internet. Now I have one more problem before I can live in peace. I am fond of a game hosted via the Discovery channel's website : http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html The game needs Adobe flash player. So I installed linux-f10-flashplugin11. But firefox 5.0 does not seem to integrate with it well. I then tried installing a couple of more ports, including swfdec and gnash. Still firefox won't play the game. Is there something special I need to do ? Thanks for any help. I feel your pain. I have had less than stellar success with getting a large number of sites to interact correctly with Firefox on FreeBSD when flash was involved, and sometimes even when it wasn't. I have heard that Opera works better but I have no personal knowledge of it. I finally gave up awhile ago. I just use my Windows machine when I absolutely, positively have to get a site working correctly. Life is too short to sweat the small stuff and golf is a lot more fun. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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: How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD, 8.2? Moving on to the next problem :-) - Flash in Firefox
On 07/29/2012 21:31, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:35:06 +0530 Manish Jain articulated: Thanks for your inputs. I have finally got FreeBSD to speak to the internet. Now I have one more problem before I can live in peace. I am fond of a game hosted via the Discovery channel's website : http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html The game needs Adobe flash player. So I installed linux-f10-flashplugin11. But firefox 5.0 does not seem to integrate with it well. I then tried installing a couple of more ports, including swfdec and gnash. Still firefox won't play the game. Is there something special I need to do ? Thanks for any help. I feel your pain. I have had less than stellar success with getting a large number of sites to interact correctly with Firefox on FreeBSD when flash was involved, and sometimes even when it wasn't. I have heard that Opera works better but I have no personal knowledge of it. I finally gave up awhile ago. I just use my Windows machine when I absolutely, positively have to get a site working correctly. Life is too short to sweat the small stuff and golf is a lot more fun. I have chromium-15.0.874.121 with linux-f10-flashplugin-11.1r102.55, and I set them up as described in the FreeBSD Handbook, and they work OK for me. True, I'm not much into games (don't use online games at all) but otherwise I've not experienced any problem with sites that use Flash, including Youtube. ___ 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: How to get Huawei EC1561 USB modem working under FreeBSD, 8.2? Moving on to the next problem :-) - Flash in Firefox
On 07/29/2012 22:23, Jeff Tipton wrote: On 07/29/2012 21:31, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:35:06 +0530 Manish Jain articulated: Thanks for your inputs. I have finally got FreeBSD to speak to the internet. Now I have one more problem before I can live in peace. I am fond of a game hosted via the Discovery channel's website : http://news.discovery.com/human/games-lumosity-word-bubbles.html The game needs Adobe flash player. So I installed linux-f10-flashplugin11. But firefox 5.0 does not seem to integrate with it well. I then tried installing a couple of more ports, including swfdec and gnash. Still firefox won't play the game. Is there something special I need to do ? Thanks for any help. I feel your pain. I have had less than stellar success with getting a large number of sites to interact correctly with Firefox on FreeBSD when flash was involved, and sometimes even when it wasn't. I have heard that Opera works better but I have no personal knowledge of it. I finally gave up awhile ago. I just use my Windows machine when I absolutely, positively have to get a site working correctly. Life is too short to sweat the small stuff and golf is a lot more fun. I have chromium-15.0.874.121 with linux-f10-flashplugin-11.1r102.55, and I set them up as described in the FreeBSD Handbook, and they work OK for me. True, I'm not much into games (don't use online games at all) but otherwise I've not experienced any problem with sites that use Flash, including Youtube. ___ 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 P.S. And yes, my midori-0.4.2, too, works well with Flash. ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 08/07/2012 13:10, Warren Block wrote: bsdinstall(8) has a curses partition editor. There is probably a trick needed to use that outside of an install context. Just run bsdinstall partedit. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:27:23 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: You mean the non-subdivided 1.44 MB or other capacity of a floppy is called a partition? Let's try to use the correct terminology. If you're talking about an MS-DOS disk, then yes, it contains a DOS partition which is formatted. In FreeBSD, we would call it a slice (slice == DOS primary partition). In this case, there is no (sub)partitioning, the _slice_ carries the MS-DOS file system here. You know that MS-DOS does not have support for partitioning. Same question for CDs? Not sure. A CD contains an ISO-9660 file system without an enclosing partition per se. If we look back into OS history, we find the magical 'c' partition. Historically, partition letters have been reserved for specific purposes: the 'a' partition means a bootable partition, 'b' is a swap partition, and 'c' is the whole disk, refering either to the disk device (da0c == da0) or the whole slice (da0s1c == da0s1). You _can_ put a UFS file system, even many of them, on a CD, that is possible, but don't expect any Windows to be able to deal with it. :-) Also, a file system can be contained in an image file. Or is this a virtual partition? As devices and real files are quite the same, you can mount a file system that is contained in a file. You typically do this when doing data recovery and forensic analysis, where your starting point is an image file of a disk, a slice or a partition. You then connect it to a virtual node (vnconfig - e. g. md0) and then you mount it as if it was a device file. Might # tar xf /dev/da0 work in other BSDs or even other (quasi-)Unixes including Linux, using the appropriate device name where applicable in place of da0? That's quite possible. I've been speaking about tar as the most universal file system which isn't one -- I've been using it on floppies many many years ago, to transfer data among Sun Sparcstations, Linux workstations and a BSD server. It's important not to use any fancy tar features, and of course you need to know the device names corresponding to the floppy drive which differ across the systems, but it is possible to first use fdformat, then tar cf, then tar xf. This of course happened before the dawn of networking. :-) While that particular construst could probably not be booted, it is possible to boot from a floppy or image file that does not contain a file system. For bare booting, a file system isn't that essential. You just have to make sure the boot chain is properly resolved, such as for example the FreeBSD boot mechanism works. You can read more about it in man 8 boot. Some of the disk images on the System Rescue CD (sysresccd.org) are not viewable/mountable as file systems. I haven't looked into this particular one, but that is very well possible. A CD doesn't _need_ to be in a ISO-9660 format (even though it's the default data format). The _implementation_ of the boot mechanism matters: it could even select from several different boot images stored in some arbitrary (but addressable) manner on the CD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
If you're talking about an MS-DOS disk, then yes, it contains a DOS partition which is formatted. In FreeBSD, we would call it a slice (slice == DOS primary partition). In this case, there is no (sub)partitioning, the _slice_ carries the MS-DOS unless you need windows 98 support partitionless USB drives works absolutely fine clear it out dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 format newfs_msdos /dev/da0 Same question for CDs? Not sure. A CD contains an ISO-9660 file system without an enclosing partition per se. In FreeBSD (as well as NetBSD, OpenBSD, maybe linux) CD is just block device. You may make disklabel on it, and whatever you like. In excuse of OS (windows) CD/DVD MUST BE CD9660 or UDF formatted without partitions. You may record NTFS formatted DVD, perfectly readable on FReeBSD, unreadable under windows in spite it is windows native filesystem. -- You may actually make hybrid DVD that will show whatever you want under windoze, and have real data in tar format. below the recipe: 1) prepare windows-vizible layout, all needed viruses and autorun.inf in some directory and do mkisofs -J -q .|dd of=/path/to/tempfile bs=512 skip=1 2) tar cf - /path/to/tempfile ...list of what you want to be tarred...|growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=- now use tar to read files from that DVD, while in windows it will run viruses properly. a virtual partition? As devices and real files are quite the same, you can mount a file system that is contained in a file. You typically do this when doing data recovery and forensic analysis, where your starting point is an image file of a disk, a slice or a partition. You then connect it to a virtual node (vnconfig - e. g. md0) and vnconfig is quite in old FreeBSD today it is mdconfig ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 09/07/2012 11:16, Polytropon wrote: If you're talking about an MS-DOS disk, then yes, it contains a DOS partition which is formatted. In FreeBSD, we would call it a slice (slice == DOS primary partition). In this case, there is no (sub)partitioning, the _slice_ carries the MS-DOS file system here. You know that MS-DOS does not have support for partitioning. Floppy disks aren't partitioned/sliced - they use 'dangerously dedicated' mode, containing nothing except the filesystem. The way you'd mount it would be: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/point You can do the same with a normal USB or other disk using: newfs /dev/da0 mount /dev/da0 /mnt/point The reason it's called 'dangerously dedicated' I think is that other systems - or even the same system months/years later if you forget and run the wrong tools - won't know there's a filesystem there and it's easy to think the disk's empty. If you're on an old system and run 'gpart show da0' and don't see a partition table it's quite easy to forget to check if da0 itself contains a filesystem. When using GPT what were called slices are now partitions, and instead of 'ada0s1a' (disk 0, slice 1, partition a) you just have 'ada0p1'. A partition table supports up to 4096 entries (gpart creates one supporting 128 by default) so there's no need for the freebsd container any more - you just create freebsd-boot, freebsd-ufs, freebsd-zfs, freebsd-swap entries e.g. 'gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 64g da0'. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
Floppy disks aren't partitioned/sliced - they use 'dangerously dedicated' they use dangerously obsolete mode. nobody use them at all. disk's empty. If you're on an old system and run 'gpart show da0' and don't see a partition table it's quite easy to forget to check if da0 itself contains a filesystem. unless it is a normal way of using it. ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 09/07/2012 13:17, Wojciech Puchar wrote: they use dangerously obsolete mode. nobody use them at all. A company I worked with were still distributing files on floppy disks as recently as 2009. They _are_ obsolete, but I suspect plenty of people still use them. unless it is a normal way of using it. That's right - I was thinking of my system where I destroyed all the data on a HDD because it didn't have a partition table. When I ran the FreeBSD installer and saw the disk was 'empty' I forgot it had a filesystem and reformatted it. Obviously people using floppy or USB disks would be more ready for there to be data on the disk without a partition table. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
A company I worked with were still distributing files on floppy disks as recently as 2009. quite funny :) They _are_ obsolete, but I suspect plenty of people still use them. unless it is a normal way of using it. That's right - I was thinking of my system where I destroyed all the data on a HDD because it didn't have a partition table. When I ran the FreeBSD only your fault, not FreeBSD. Why you connected your data disk at first place. ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 09/07/2012 13:29, Wojciech Puchar wrote: only your fault, not FreeBSD. Why you connected your data disk at first place. I didn't say it was FreeBSD's fault. If I thought it was, I would have fixed it! -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 21:00:40 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote: In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to newfs to enable it. Thanks. Next time I blow around AU$455 on a 120GB flashdrive, I'll be glad to be better informed about getting the most out of it :) At least with sysinstall|sade you can set extra newfs options such as -t, and as importantly for me, you can toggle whether or not to newfs particular partition/s, such as leaving say /home alone on an existing partitioning, which didn't seem straightforward with bsdinstall last I tried (admittedly at 9.0-BETA1) but I've not followed later updates. I might take Matthew's suggestion and try the PCBSD 9 installer; I did boot a PCBSD 8 memstick at one stage, and was surprisingly impressed - or I could use freebsd-update instead of sources to go from 7.4 to 9.1 It's the options that drive ya crazy -- Silly Symphony C.'83 cheers, Ian ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Bruce Cran wrote: On 09/07/2012 11:16, Polytropon wrote: If you're talking about an MS-DOS disk, then yes, it contains a DOS partition which is formatted. In FreeBSD, we would call it a slice (slice == DOS primary partition). In this case, there is no (sub)partitioning, the _slice_ carries the MS-DOS file system here. You know that MS-DOS does not have support for partitioning. Floppy disks aren't partitioned/sliced - they use 'dangerously dedicated' mode, containing nothing except the filesystem. Dangerously dedicated refers to a disk with a bsdlabel partition table and boot block. Floppies don't have even that, it's just a raw filesystem. ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 07:44:28AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: You don't. You wipe the FAT32 with fdisk and make a FreeBSD slice on it. Then you can bsdlabel it with one partition and newfs it. Or you can repeat 100 times more that you have to make fdisk and bsdlabel. you don't, and it doesn't make sense You can do many things as indicated in several posts and most of them will work if you want it that way. But, they do not answer the question as posted. Turning the USB stick into a FreeBSD type or mounting it as MSDOSFS does answer that question. I am not sure why the rabid promotion of non-slicing, but it not worth all the extra bandwidth applied to it. jerry ___ 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 ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
Magdeburg, Germany I have used gpart to partition a USB flash drive into FreeBSD boot partition, root partition and swap partition. making swap partition on USB pendrive is at least stupid. if you won't swap at all - wasted space. If you will it would be so slow and wear USB pendrive so quickly that you certainly don't want this. bsdlabel -w device bsdabel -e device and make a partition start from 0 to end, 4.2BSD newfs it bsdlabel -B and put everything in one partition. make heavy use of tmpfs, make sure noatime is put in fstab to limit writes to pendrive. ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:45:17 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: Does a USB flash drive also work as a giant floppy, no partitions? Can you make a flash drive bootable when nonpartitioned and formatted that way? Yes, that's exactly what my advice was aiming to, but let's try to keep the terminology clean: You cannot do without partitions. A partition carries a file system. You _can_ do without slices. A slice holds one or more partitions. A slice is a DOS primary partition. Omitting it is called dedicated mode. There may be some circumstances where a dedicated disk doesn't boot. Personally I haven't met one, but it's still possible due to BIOSes expecting MS-DOS-alike structures. For the file system side, it's just a matter of having created one partition covering the whole disk, newfs and tunefs it, and install the boot code. Wojciech Puchar did already explain how this works and which tools are involved. However, there _is_ a way to make a giant floppy without a file system (as you said without partitions, and I'll take that literally): You can use tar, the universal file system that isn't a file system to write data to the USB stick. Writing stuff: # tar cf /dev/da0 /my/files Reading stuff: # tar xf /dev/da0 This works, but it may appear that no other system can read it. If you consider using it for FreeBSD only, no problem. The big advantage: You don't need to mount and umount the stick. I'm assume _that_ construct cannot be booted. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
