Flash 9 (WINE) on FreeBSD, finally

[ninjatux]

More posts on the mailing lists indicate that patches have been submitted to CURRENT that allow for Flash 9 to work in native FreeBSD with sound. Multiple success stories have been noted.

[mdh]

I followed a link from a prior link in this thread and found this: http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/ad...n-project.html

Now there have been questions if there are any gotchas in what Adobe has announced concerning the SWF and FLV specifications. There IS in fact a license, it is on page two of the specifications. You might be shocked however by how small it is. It's essentially BSD license style damages disclaimer plus some additional information about trademarks and such.

BSD licensing their specs? Very interesting.

[vmhobbes]

Hi, I got Flash 9 with sound working on FreeBSD-CURRENT/linux_base-f8/native Firefox 3.0.3. (Tested on YouTube). For those who'd like to try it for themselves, here's what I did:

Enable Linux compatibility in rc.conf , then run
# /etc/rc.d/abi restart

Add this to /etc/make.conf:

OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8

Then add this to /etc/fstab:

linproc         /compat/linux/proc      linprocfs        rw       0 0

...and mount it:
# mount /compat/linux/proc

Make sure the output of 'sysctl compat.linux.osrelease' says 2.6.16 (It's the default in -CURRENT, but hey, it wouldn't hurt to see, right? )

Install (not necessarily in order):
- emulators/linux_base-f8
- www/linux-flashplugin9
- www/nspluginwrapper
- www/firefox3 (of course )

After everything is installed:
% nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

Check that Firefox recognizes the plugin, if it does, try to view a YouTube video. Hope this helps.

Addendum 10/15/2008: Sometimes npviewer.bin crashes, which prevents further viewing of Flash on the current Firefox session. If this happens, try killing all npviewer.bin processes, then reload the page.

[Weaseal]

Originally Posted by vmhobbes

Hi, I got Flash 9 with sound working on FreeBSD-CURRENT/linux_base-f8/native Firefox 3.0.3. (Tested on YouTube). For those who'd like to try it for themselves, here's what I did:

Thanks for this guide! Does it work on amd64 or are we still limited to i386?

[vmhobbes]

Oof, sorry, I forgot to mention, this is on i386. I don't have an amd64 machine to test this on.

Many thanks go out to the people who worked on the code to make this happen.

[KernelPanic]

Any chance the patches might make it into FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE?

[vermaden]

@vmhobbes
I also added you post as a sticky thread on General category:
http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2219

[Weaseal]

Originally Posted by KernelPanic

Any chance the patches might make it into FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE?

No way. This was introducted into -CURRENT long after the -STABLE code freeze began.

[Carpetsmoker]

From http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/11/64-bits.html

The 64-bit version of the [flash] plugin compiles and runs on FreeBSD 7.0 which I demoed at Flashforward 2008. There are no plans for release yet as it is still rather unstable and will require substantial work to get it ready for public consumption.

[ninjatux]

Originally Posted by Weaseal

Thanks for this guide! Does it work on amd64 or are we still limited to i386?

It works on AMD64. I'm using it right now, and it runs pretty well. I haven't had a crash or weird issues. *Knocks on wood.*

[ninjatux]

I've concluded that Flash is utterly useless except for a few sites. npviewer.bin crashes every other time. I went back to swfdec, which I actually liked a lot better than standard Flash. At least content wasn't automatically loaded. Anyway, I appreciate the work the developers did, but Flash with this method can make your system quite unstable.

[ericturgeon]

its works but i dont have sound do you have a plugin.