flash video playback via ffmpeg (under Haiku)

[danboid]

Hi!

I've been following the Haiku / openBeOS project since its inception
but its only recently I have found it to be good enough to become my
primary OS. A major factor in my recent switchover was the QT4 port
which of course has allowed arora to be ported which serves my needs
much better than the creaky old BeZilla browser which I believe is
based on FF 2.x. My only real problems with arora (0.10.2) under Haiku
are that it can't currently handle gmail (for that I use Web+ - does
gmail work under the current Linux Arora?) and I can't watch flash
videos.

gnash has now been ported to Haiku but I've read others have been
unsuccessful in getting it to run under arora although I personally
haven't tried yet. I haven't really bothered trying gnash because I
have tried a recent gnash under (Arch) Linux and it was way to slow
and buggy to be usable- maybe things have improved massively in the
last couple of months for gnash but I'd be very surprised. Personally,
I think I stand a much better chance of getting usable flash video
playback under Arora/Haiku if I could get the videos played back with
ffmpeg or vlc - even better would be the Haiku MediaPlayer but I don't
know if it supports flv and h264 yet and that wouldn't be portable
like a ffmpeg solution would be.

I've know people have got flash videos playing using mplayer under
Linux FF so I don't see why it shouldn't be possible to do the same
with ffmpeg and Arora under Haiku. Somebody probably has ported
mplayer to Haiku but I've not found a Haiku mplayer package and nor
have I tried compiling it myself yet.

Thanks for your help!

Dan

[Diego Iastrubni]

Arora does display gmail both on Linux and Windows here. Did you try the Browser demo from Qt4?

IMHO, it's possible that your build uses a "different" JavaScript engine. If the demo browser from Qt4 does not work, then it's time to move upwards, to Nokia or WebKit directly.

BTW: weren't you guys working on a "native" browser based on WebKit for Haiku?

[allcoms]

Hi Diego and list

No, I've not tried the QT browser demo yet.

I can't use gmail at all under Haiku Arora 0.10.2- I just get returned
to the login screen when I try logging in. I can use the standard
gmail interface to read mail under Web+ but I've had problems sending
mail however I can use the normal HTML gmail interface fine under
BeZilla (Haiku FF 2 port) but the 'standard' one doesn't finish
loading.

As for Flash, I've now tried the Haiku Gnash port. It does work under
Bezilla but its as jerky as last time I tried it under Linux. I copied
GNASH's libgnashplugin.gcc2.so and libgnashplugin.gcc4.so to
/boot/home/.mozilla/plugins , which is the correct path according to
the Arora docs, but no flash (Youtube video). I've launched Arora from
the terminal but it doesn't mention anything about gnash, flash or
plugins and nor can I see a menu option to view installed plugins so
I'm stuck now.

I've realised that gnash uses ffmpeg so I'm wondering if it would be
any better at all if I could use ffmpeg directly and cut out gnash?

Dan