Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-10-11 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Harald Weis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:04:00PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training >> wrote: >> > I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it would be >> > nice to know I won't be the o

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-10-05 Thread Harald Weis
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:04:00PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training > wrote: > > I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it would be > > nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going right now to do so. > > Good

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread Programmer in Training
Quoting Chris Whitehouse : Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Polytropon : On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: That's a no-go, I have it on good authority that h.264 was chosen over Theora. That along with mpeg-la having put out a press release say

Theora vs h.264 [Was Re: concerning flash under freebsd]

2010-06-17 Thread Programmer in Training
Quoting RW : On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:51:40 -0600 Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Polytropon : > > That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are > moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and > open standards for their videos so they can access a bigg

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: [snip] > > As I understand it, originally Ogg Theora was going to be the standard, > but it's now been left open instead due to uncertainty about Theora > infringing patents. Some sites are using Theora, but most seem to be > going with h.264. I presume that this is due to IE support for

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread RW
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:51:40 -0600 Programmer in Training wrote: > Quoting Polytropon : > > > > That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are > > moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and > > open standards for their videos so they can access a bigger > > T

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Polytropon : On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net which my church uses). That's all within transition. Currently, big video portal

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread Programmer in Training
Quoting Polytropon : As much as I am now a no-user of "Flash", allow me the following comments. On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net which my church uses). That's all

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-16 Thread Polytropon
As much as I am now a no-user of "Flash", allow me the following comments. On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: > Almost all Internet video > has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net > which my church uses). That's all within transition

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:53 PM, RW wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:04:00 +0200 > "C. P. Ghost" wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training >> wrote: >> > I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it >> > would be nice to know I won't be the only one.

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-16 Thread RW
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:04:00 +0200 "C. P. Ghost" wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training > wrote: > > I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it > > would be nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going > > right now to do so. > > Good

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training wrote: > I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it would be > nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going right now to do so. Good luck with that. Adobe doesn't care about FreeBSD. Never did, and probably

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-16 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:32:21 +0200 Samuel Martín Moro articulated: > Their last Linux release only exists for x86. > Two ArchLinux mailinglists are advising users about uninstalling > Flash from our systems. > > Flash is hardly working on BSD. And often bug on Linux. > > I spent one month, for

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 15 Jun 2010 at 15:11:47 PDT Programmer in Training wrote: "Don't install it." isn't a valid option. Sure it is. The fact that it's an option you don't want to accept doesn't make it invalid. I also take issue with the "well use a supported OS" schtick. I will tell Adobe to provide

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Programmer in Training
Quoting Chuck Swiger : Please see last line of sig. On Jun 15, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Chuck Swiger : Adobe supports Windows, MacOSX, Linux, and Solaris (from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions ). If it is important to you that Flash works w

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 15, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Programmer in Training wrote: > Quoting Chuck Swiger : >> Adobe supports Windows, MacOSX, Linux, and Solaris (from >> http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions ). If it is important to >> you that Flash works well, you should either persuade Adobe to provide

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
Their last Linux release only exists for x86. Two ArchLinux mailinglists are advising users about uninstalling Flash from our systems. Flash is hardly working on BSD. And often bug on Linux. I spent one month, for my work, trying to correct a few of those crashes (we provide FreeBSD servers, our

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Programmer in Training
Quoting Chuck Swiger : On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Programmer in Training wrote: [ ... ] While that may be, try telling that to your 4 yr old nephew who likes to play those flash based games on PBS Kids. Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on s

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Programmer in Training wrote: [ ... ] > While that may be, try telling that to your 4 yr old nephew who likes to play > those flash based games on PBS Kids. Almost all Internet video has moved to > flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net which my church

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Programmer in Training
Quoting Chip Camden : My alias for killflash is "Don't install it." Flash is buggy software on any platform. While that may be, try telling that to your 4 yr old nephew who likes to play those flash based games on PBS Kids. Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as al

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 15 2010 22:55, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > why is flash still causing such problems under freebsd? i've been > having the same issues for years nows: > > - browser tabs freeze completely > - `ps` reports a lot of nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin processes > - nspluginwrapper/npviewer

concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, why is flash still causing such problems under freebsd? i've been having the same issues for years nows: - browser tabs freeze completely - `ps` reports a lot of nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin processes - nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin coredumps i read that the cause for this is a buggy im