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way to install flashplugins on firefox?
hi all i have 4.7 version and linux emu on boot... freebsd have a port linux nspluginwrapper.... for openbsd what is a way to install flashpluging 10.1 on firefox
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Current now has minitube which will play flash videos at youtube.
I don't care to have a flash plugin on my browser as much of the flash content on my news websites is advertisements. Occasionally I like to watch/listen to music on youtube and minitube does this well. Joni Mitchell does a great version of Me and My Uncle archived from an 60's Canadian Folk Show. |
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Jiggimi, as you said, there is no way to use the flashplugin in Firefox on OpenBSD.
Minitube is a new option in OpenBSD as of 11July2010. It avoids multiple security issues with linux, xorg and flash that have not been addressed in OpenBSD 4.7 http://openports.se/www/minitube Links to security vulnerabilities http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/re...ry-attacks.pdf http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/153005?rdf Last edited by shep; 27th August 2010 at 04:44 PM. Reason: corrected openports minitube link |
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http://openports.se/graphics/swfdec It is almost fully Flash 9 compliant. The development of swfdec has sized almost two years ago now. If they YouTube is the primary concern of the original question there are much better solutions as outlined before but if you need honest Flash (as I needed to use some on-line editors of Learning Management Systems and some medical insurance information) swfdec is as good as it gets on OpenBSD. It did work for most part for my needs in the past. There are unofficial ports of Flash 9 and Ndiswrapper floating around Internet. I tried them and I realized why they have never been committed. |
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youtube_dl always worked fairly well for me, it just downloads the video files to your hard drive and can then play them with Mplayer.
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You Tube altered their site and youtube-dl quit working. This has been fixed in the latest youtube-dl version. Version 4.7 will not have the fix but it is in current
http://openports.se/www/youtube-dl If you go to the trouble of running current you will also find minitube as mentioned. It uses the qt4 libs and also needs the gstreamer-ffmpeg plugin http://openports.se/multimedia/gstre...plugins-ffmpeg Last edited by shep; 4th September 2010 at 01:47 PM. Reason: punctuation |
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youtube-dl is a single file, a python script. The port for it has this one file in the plist and no dependencies other than using the python ports module. I'd suggest if the 4.7 version isn't working for you, you can safely manually replace the script with a newer one without involving the package system. In this simple case, I would think you could expect little harm to result if you later do a package upgrade and want to go back to letting the package system work for you. At worst if pkg_add or pkg_delete gives you a hard time about it (will they?) you can force the delete and manually remove the script then install the new version with pkg_add. This is what I'm doing, though I haven't upgraded over it yet.
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Gnash is an active effort. For what ever reason the OpenBSD port is still at version 8.3 released in early 2008.
http://openports.se/www/gnash The Gnash project code is at 8.8. http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6483 This is not to be construed as criticism of the OpenBSD port maintainers. They are busy. |
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The current maintainer, or well, past maintainer.. Deanna Phillips, has pretty much given up on work involved maintaining gnash (..it is rather large, lots of dependencies).
Waiting for someone else to do it isn't really the right mentality, try doing the work to and send it to the ports mailing list and ask Deanna to takeover maintainership. Or you can just wait until Flash is rendered useless by wishful thinking, that's what I do, the sooner the better. |
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My formal computer experience is from a high school course in Basic and a college elective in Pascal back in the days of punch cards. Anything beyond that was picked up from FAQ's, wiki's, howto's, forums and man pages.
I have a feeling the gnash port would be a little much to bite off trying to learn about porting to OpenBSD. Any semblance of a code review is beyond me. I too would not mind seeing html5 do away with the complexity of flash pages. I observe that there are alot of interests that still support flash content while Steve Jobs still states (I believe correctly) that it is a buggy security hole. One of the more notable examples of the pervasiveness of those who market macromedia/adobe flash is that my online banking requires flash. This amazes me given its security history. Last edited by shep; 11th September 2010 at 11:14 PM. Reason: spelling/punctuation |
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With a bit of search you can find the version of her story on the Internet. (it was either posted on misc or as a comment for a relatively recent OpenBSD journal article.) |
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The Gnash developers are always going to be at least one step behind Adobe and as time goes on the OpenBSD port will lose functionality. From what you describe, I would only encourage my worst enemies to become the OpenBSD port maintainer for Gnash.
The OP of this thread likely had no idea what he was getting into and in the absence of the subsequent information provided by Oko would just decide that OpenBSD doesn't work very well. A thought on how to deal with this might be to adapt what Slackware does. They maintain a "Testing" and "Pasture" section. I think Gnash would be appropriate for "Testing" As an example of port that would be appropriate for "Pasture" I would nominate FBpanel. I believe the FBpanel developer joined the LXDE project and used the FBpanel code as a base for LXpanel. The FBpanel appears to be essentially archived with no active development. I submitted a patch I found to the maintainer who applied the patch and promptly resigned Quote:
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on OpenBSD. It seems that Gnash developers have read Diana's (or maybe this) rant and have really push hard to improve specifically Gnash compatibility with OpenBSD. The new version Gnash 0.8.9 which is just released specifically mention in its release notes improvements on OpenBSD. Brad has already posted update diff on ports@openbsd which is not committed due to some minor problems with shared libraries. I anticipate that the port will be committed in next couple of days. All of you who have been bitching about lack of Flash for OpenBSD (myself included) should install 4.9 snapshots and give Gnash really hard spin. Oko |
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I'll take a whack at it, but WRT gnash, my eye is mighty jaundiced indeed.
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