On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:19:59PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-06-01 02:36 +0200, lee wrote: > > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:25:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> > >> How about "dpkg --purge flashplugin-nonfree"? If you do not trust > >> Adobe, stop using their closed-source software. > > > > I'd gladly do that, but how would I watch the videos then? > > If you insist on viewing any video on the planet, there is probably no > really satisfactory solution. But you could at least try swfdec-mozilla > and/or mozilla-plugin-gnash which will play some videos.
I didn't try to watch "any" videos, only the ones I wanted to see. > If (i.e. when) > you encounter sites that to not work with them, you can press Ctrl-u and > search for ".flv" in the page source which often reveals a URL to a file > you can download, bringing you back to your original question. Well, try that on this site, for example: http://www.blinkx.com/video/star-trek-the-next-generation-tng-remember-me/EG__neFe_Val0UlBlbE4mA Why can the web browser not just allow me to download the videos like all others? > So far I've been able to avoid Adobe's crash-plugin. Interestingly, it doesn't seem to crash as often as it did since I stopped running KDE. I watched the first three seasons of TNG without the player crashing. But anyway, the player sucks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
