On 02 Sep 2014, Fred Crowson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 08:57:34AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Greetings, list! > > > > I'm a long-standing user of Linux (currently ArchLinux) who is just > > trying out OpenBSD and so far is much impressed. I'm using a Thinkpad > > T42. > > > > The main outstanding problem at the moment is accessing BBC Iplayer, > > which insists on my having Flashplayer installed. > > > > After reading the FAQ and various lists I put libflashplayer.so in > > ~/.mozilla/plugins and installed the fedora_base package as suggested in > > the FAQ. I still can't use Iplayer. > > > > I saw somewhere that Chrome has inbuilt flashplayer but that doesn't > > seem to be the case. > > > > As a workaround I can use get_iplayer to download BBC programmes but is > > it possible to get a browser to access Iplayer? > > > > Anthony > > > > Hi Anthony, > > In the past I have managed to get flash to work on OpenBSD - but flash has > not worked reliably....but not having flash is a positive feature for me ;~) > > I have not managed to get iplayer to work in a browser. > > If you succeed could you let misc@ know it would be useful for the archives. > > Cheers > > Fred
Thanks for the reply, which confirms what I suspected, viz. that it isn't going to work. If I find a solution I'll certainly report it. Anthony > -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412
