help with flash plugin

[erdos]

hi, i'd like to watch videos online but the website reminds me that flash is not installed. Just wondering what flash pkg i need to installed to play videos online.

thanks

 

[erdos]

to clarify, flashplayer is installed, what i need is the plugins.
according to wiki for flash, I need the following flash plugin:
linux-c6-flashplugin11

but 'pkg search' yields nothing related:

 

[Phishfry]

but 'pkg search' yields nothing related:

Flash has been depreciated.
The plugin has been deleted as it was removed upstream:
www/linux-c6-flashplugin11

Are you sure you need flash? There are other ways to play video such as multimedia/vlc and multimedia/mplayer.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

depreciated

deprecated

 

[skeletonboss12]

I'm sorry to say but you can't use it anymore. It is not possible, the packages related to it have been broken for a very long time now.

 

[Sevendogsbsd]

Flash is dead technology with serious security problems. I would consider alternatives as suggested.

 

[oops]

www/firefox + www/linux-flashplayer (no binary package due RESTRICTED) + www/nspluginwrapper still works fine here. Deprecated doesn't imply unsupported, EOL is not until 2020-12-31.

 

[erdos]

www/firefox + www/linux-flashplayer (no binary package due RESTRICTED) + www/nspluginwrapper still works fine here. Deprecated doesn't imply unsupported, EOL is not until 2020-12-31.

thank you! this is what i was looking for! i used to be able to play most the streaming websites in 11.3 before upgrade to release 12.

 

[skeletonboss12]

Flash is dead technology with serious security problems. I would consider alternatives as suggested.

would it be difficult to make a local repo for these kind of packages that can be backed up and such?

 

[Sevendogsbsd]

No, but the security implications are the same: you are accessing badly designed web sites with a binary plugin that is also badly designed. All I am saying is it would be best to find alternatives. HTML5 made flash obsolete but for whatever reason, Adobe has kept it alive, probably for the benefit of those web admins that are too lazy to re-write their sites in HTML5 instead of flash (or forgot the site exists).

 

[SirDice]

I'd like to watch videos online but the website reminds me that flash is not installed.

This sounds like something a dodgy website might try to claim so you install their backdoor.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

There are a number of old web sites out there, even technical ones, that still contain flash video. Which makes me question whether the owner has cared anymore about it to bother to look themselves.

Adobe has kept it alive

Actually Adobe will drop all distribution and support by the end of this year

 

[Mjölnir]

Flash is dead technology with serious security problems. I would consider alternatives as suggested.

Flash is evil & it's design is even worse than Java. Don't use it. Period. You can find a (HTML5) video with a legendary flush of anger in the net. Was it Steve Jobs? Consider preparing a template to post to all sites that still use flash. Do not use those sites and search for alternative sites that are written according to well-established, platform-independend standards.