Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-16 Thread parv
in message <20100714192246.b4daa560.free...@edvax.de>, wrote Polytropon thusly... > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:06:14 +0300, Odhiambo Washington > wrote: > > Is this the same way the Linux users have it?:-) > > I don't think so. The Linux "Flash" plugin seems to work better on > Linux than it does on

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-15 Thread Dave
On 14 Jul 2010 at 20:35, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Warren Block wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, paul wrote: > > > >> Is it possible to watch youtube on a FreeBSD system ? And if it is, > >> someone would be so kind to guide me to a FAQ / Article / wiki / or > >> tell me how to do it ? > > > > Ye

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Neil Short
Another alternative is to install the firefox plugin called DownloadHelper. It works very well with youtube and several other sites. start here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ and click the link for "Popular." It's near the top of the list. ___

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, paul wrote: Is it possible to watch youtube on a FreeBSD system ? And if it is, someone would be so kind to guide me to a FAQ / Article / wiki / or tell me how to do it ? Yes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, paul wrote: Is it possible to watch youtube on a FreeBSD system ? And if it is, someone would be so kind to guide me to a FAQ / Article / wiki / or tell me how to do it ? Yes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html#MOZ-FLASH-PLUGI

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:06:14 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Is this the same way the Linux users have it?:-) I don't think so. The Linux "Flash" plugin seems to work better on Linux than it does on FreeBSD. Linux, as well as OpenSolaris, is a platform with better support, so I think the reg

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread b. f.
>I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last 2 weeks i was >trying to use >FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, but i can't make the flash videos work on >most of the >popular flash video sites. I've tried to pkg_add, compile from source, >swfdec-plugin, >gnash on FreeBSD 7.3 and

FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Robert Huff
paul writes: > So finally i came here with the question: Is it possible > to watch youtube on a FreeBSD system ? Yes. I have it running on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Apr 23 11:34:17 EDT 2010 amd64 > And if it is, someone would be so kind to guide me to a FAQ / > Article

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:02 +0200 (CEST), paul wrote: > > Hy > > I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last > > 2 weeks i was trying to use FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, > > but i can't make the flash videos work on mo

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Brian Callahan
Depends on how you want to do it. You can use www/youtube_dl to get the movies, then watch on your player of choice. Or if you really want to watch in a browser can go to youtube.com/html5 and sign up for the HTML5 beta. Then on a (very) modern browser, any videos with HTML5 will work. Unfortunatel

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:02 +0200 (CEST), paul wrote: > Hy > I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last > 2 weeks i was trying to use FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, > but i can't make the flash videos work on most of the popular > flash video sites. Oh... "Flash" video, th

FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread paul
Hy I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last 2 weeks i was trying to use FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, but i can't make the flash videos work on most of the popular flash video sites. I've tried to pkg_add, compile from source, swfdec-plugin, gnash on FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.1