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Old 20th August 2008
dinamos dinamos is offline
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I'm new to FBSD and implemented Linux Binary Compatibility to get Flash to run on my system. I just came across this workaround on the Puppy Linux web site:

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Flash video
http://www.puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00309

Zigbert recommended that .flv files need to have a file association so that Gxine will play them. At first I thought, no, Gxine cannot play a Flash Video, but this overview page has corrected me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video

Where to get some FLV files to play with? I found this:
http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/fl...ample-flv.html

The required mime-type is 'video/x-flv', and I presume that zigbert has requested that this be setup so that Gxine plays when a .flv file is clicked on in ROX-Filer. But, if I try to open a .flv file in SeaMonkey, SeaMonkey does not know what to do with it either.

I got that mime-type after a bit of research on the Internet (also given in the wikipedia page), however ROX-Filer thinks the mime-type for .flv files is 'application/x-flash-video'.

To fix SeaMonkey (and Firefox and many other apps), I added entries to /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime.types (using video/x-flv mime-type).
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Would any of this be germane to FBSD?

dinamos
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