I'd just like to mention that swfdec 0.5.1 was released, and I have taken maintainership of both the swfdec and swfdec-plugin ports. This new release includes two big milestones: the one most important to FreeBSD users is that our very own Eric Anholt has written an OSS backend, so we can now enjoy sound, which is especially important in light of the fact that swfdec can now play embedded youtube videos!

I've tested this and it is works (though I have a severe performance problem with any effects or rendering in firefox which I think is related to my video card). I've heard reports from others that it works as well.

So now the philsophical message: In a way we're lucky as FreeBSD users that Macromedia and now Adobe have ignored providing flash support for FreeBSD, the reason for that is that we are better able to support projects like swfdec that provide a free implementation of these protocols and open them up to everyone not just those fortunate enough to be considered a worthy platform, so even if you have Flash working in Linuxulator, please give swfdec a try and see if it suits your needs, if it does use it instead!