Is there any way to play videos from Google and YouTube
on OpenBSD?

Thanks,
Dave Feustel

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On 2007-04-25, dave <daf@a64.localhost.comcast.net> wrote:
> Is there any way to play videos from Google and YouTube
> on OpenBSD?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Feustel
>

Hi Dave,

You need flash in order to play movies from youtube. The firefox
browser in OpenBSD doesn't come with that installed, neither there is
a package or port for it. You might use the opera browser instead (you
need to compile it from the ports, together with the flash plugin).
Since it is made to be run in Linux, you need to turn the linux
emulation on of your kernel,

# sysctl kern.emul.linux=1
# opera

But don't expect to have the same results as you would with a non
emul program. Sometimes the videos will not play and you will have to
do several refreshes of the page before you see it.

Bests
Rui

> Is there any way to play videos from Google and YouTube
> on OpenBSD?

$ cd /usr/ports && make search key=youtube
Port: yt-3
Path: net/yt
Info: customizable script to fetch youtube videos

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On 2007-04-26, Rui <roostium@mars.fis.uc.pt> wrote:
> On 2007-04-25, dave <daf@a64.localhost.comcast.net> wrote:
>> Is there any way to play videos from Google and YouTube
>> on OpenBSD?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave Feustel
>>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> You need flash in order to play movies from youtube. The firefox
> browser in OpenBSD doesn't come with that installed, neither there is
> a package or port for it. You might use the opera browser instead (you
> need to compile it from the ports, together with the flash plugin).
> Since it is made to be run in Linux, you need to turn the linux
> emulation on of your kernel,
>
> # sysctl kern.emul.linux=1
> # opera

Since Dave seems to use OpenBSD/amd64
From Dave post Header:
User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (OpenBSD/4.0 (amd64))

This option is not possible...

[snip]

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Martin

dave <daf@a64.localhost.comcast.net> writes:

> Is there any way to play videos from Google and YouTube
> on OpenBSD?

If OpenBSD has mplayer, then there are chances that you can use
that to watch youtube videos. At least, it works under Linux.

Vilmos

On 04/26/07 11:25 AM, Vilmos Soti wrote:

> If OpenBSD has mplayer, then there are chances that you can use
> that to watch youtube videos. At least, it works under Linux.

Google Video clips used to be (and maybe still are) DivX; the player was
a Flash implementation of a DivX player but one could download them and
play them with just about any other player.

I don't know about Youtube clips, whether they ever were DivX or are now
that Google has purchased Youtube...

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