Anyone get Flash 9 working?

The basic question,
has anyone gotten Flash-9 running on FreeBSD ? 
linux-version? wine version? 
FreeBSD 7?  anything?

I realize this is one of those issues that reappears every
few months, 
however, without Flash 9, it is difficult to do some website
development in a 
pure FreeBSD environment.

Thanks in advance

Mark Moellering
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Mark Moellering wrote:

> The basic question,
> has anyone gotten Flash-9 running on FreeBSD ? 
linux-version? wine version?
> FreeBSD 7?  anything?
Now, you can't exactly call it "running":
On
FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 amd64
with
linux_base-fc7-7_1
in
linux-opera-9.24.20071015
with
linux-flashplugin-9.0r48
I can view _some_ flash animations.
But mostly it will crash either linux-opera or X or the
complete 
system.
I would say: there is still a long way to go.

Greetings,

Uli.

>
> I realize this is one of those issues that reappears
every few months,
> however, without Flash 9, it is difficult to do some
website development in a
> pure FreeBSD environment.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mark Moellering
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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany

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On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 13:38 -0400, Mark Moellering wrote:
> The basic question,
> has anyone gotten Flash-9 running on FreeBSD ? 
linux-version? wine version? 
                                                            
   ^^^^^^^ 

Thanks for idea!  I've just
installed Firefox 2.0.0.6 and
FlashPlayer9 in WINE 0.9.47 and it's working flawlessly so
far.

> FreeBSD 7?  anything?
> 
> I realize this is one of those issues that reappears
every few months, 
> however, without Flash 9, it is difficult to do some
website development in a 
> pure FreeBSD environment.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Mark Moellering


Yuri
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My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open
source 
driver for flash for freebsd?  Is it a legal issue?  Or does
it take 
more time than anyone has to give?  Or is it just too
difficult to do 
without help from Adobe?
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icantthinkofone wrote:
> My naive question is, what is involved with creating an
open source 
> driver for flash for freebsd?  Is it a legal issue?  Or
does it take 
> more time than anyone has to give?  Or is it just too
difficult to do 
> without help from Adobe?

http://www.gnu.org
/software/gnash/

It can even play youtube.
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Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> icantthinkofone wrote:
>   
>> My naive question is, what is involved with
creating an open source 
>> driver for flash for freebsd?  Is it a legal issue?
 Or does it take 
>> more time than anyone has to give?  Or is it just
too difficult to do 
>> without help from Adobe?
>>     
>
> http://www.gnu.org
/software/gnash/
>
> It can even play youtube.
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Does that in any way answer the question?
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Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:47:56 schrieb
icantthinkofone:
> Does that in any way answer the question?

Yes, because gnash is an open-source (re)implementation of
Flash Player, 
compatible with a large part of the Flash7 specification, so
that you don't 
need Adobe's player to play Flash format multimedia files.
Did you actually 
check out (i.e., visit _and_ read) the gnash website, if
you're asking this?

By the way, this has nothing to do with drivers; Flash is a
data-container 
format, which requires a program (knowing the specification,
which is 
sort-of-open, with the emphasis lying on
"sort-of," not "open," for Flash) to 
interpret, not a device. The word "driver" is
reserved for software providing 
access to the latter (at least in my vocabulary), or at
least something 
happening in kernel-space.

-- 
Heiko Wundram
Product & Application Development
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:47:56AM -0500, icantthinkofone
wrote:
> Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
>> icantthinkofone wrote:
>>   
>>> My naive question is, what is involved with
creating an open source 
>>> driver for flash for freebsd?  Is it a legal
issue?  Or does it take more 
>>> time than anyone has to give?  Or is it just
too difficult to do without 
>>> help from Adobe?
>>>     
>> 
>> http://www.gnu.org
/software/gnash/
>> 
>> It can even play youtube.
>>   
> Does that in any way answer the question?

Yes. Obviously it's not a legal issue, as it's been done.
Likewise,
it's not so difficult as to require help from Adobe, as it's
been
done without such help.

As I understand it, it's mostly a case of time and effort -
working
through as many different Flash files as possible, working
out what
they're doing, and implementing the support for it.

-- 
Benjamin A'Lee <bmasubvert.org.uk>
http://subvert.org.uk/~bm
a/
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters
and
photographers." - Mahatma Gandhi

Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:47:56AM -0500,
icantthinkofone wrote:
>   
>> Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
>>     
>>> icantthinkofone wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> My naive question is, what is involved with
creating an open source 
>>>> driver for flash for freebsd?  Is it a
legal issue?  Or does it take more 
>>>> time than anyone has to give?  Or is it
just too difficult to do without 
>>>> help from Adobe?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> http://www.gnu.org
/software/gnash/
>>>
>>> It can even play youtube.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Does that in any way answer the question?
>>     
>
> Yes. Obviously it's not a legal issue, as it's been
done. Likewise,
> it's not so difficult as to require help from Adobe, as
it's been
> done without such help.
>
> As I understand it, it's mostly a case of time and
effort - working
> through as many different Flash files as possible,
working out what
> they're doing, and implementing the support for it.
>
>   
To correct my previous post, I think.  It was Benjamin,
here, who 
brought up working out the information involved in
interfacing to Flash.
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