[Mageia-discuss] Flash videos

Wed Jun 13 15:28:34 CEST 2012

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:35 AM, TJ <andrewsfarm at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 06/13/2012 05:23 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
+>>
+>>
+>> On 13/06/12 09:42, andre999 wrote:
+>>>
+>>> TJ a écrit :
+>
+>
+>>>> Oops. Should have looked before asking that last question. I see
+>>>> Lightspark is a dependency for Gnash.
+>>>>
+>>>> But do they make a functional alternative to Adobe's offering...
+>>>>
+>>>> TJ
+>>>>
+>>> I tried Gnash a couple of years ago and wasn't impressed.  But now
+>>> I block flash by default (and rarely unblock) so I couldn't say.
+>>> When I tried it before, it could be installed the same time as
+>>> Flash. The latest version is in core.  So why not try it and see ?
+>>>
+>>> As I understand it, Adobe is planning to phase out support for all
+>>> flash in favour of something based on HTML5, but I could be
+>>> mistaken.
+>>>
+>> The current version is, according to Adobe, the last one that will be
+>> released for Linux.
+>>
+>> Anne
+>
+> Yes, something about a deal with Google that future Linux versions of the
+> plugin will be a part of Chrome and not released separately. Mozilla refused
+> to go along. I don't know the details, including whether the new
+> Flash-players will work with Chromium as well.
+>
+> I'm a farmer, and I sometimes miss the local TV weather broadcast, but I can
+> watch a Flash video of it on the station's website if I do. Also, from time
+> to time I like to watch videos from the local newspaper, and of course,
+> Youtube. Not to mention the occasional instructional video.
+>
+> I tried both Gnash and Lightspark from the repositories, finding that only
+> one Flash-playing plugin is allowed in Firefox. Only Adobe's offering played
+> everywhere. Gnash seemed to work OK with Youtube, but not with some other
+> sites, like that TV site mentioned above. Lightspark wasn't much, if any,
+> better. Looking at the web pages for each, I see that each has had a release
+> newer than the one in the repositories, but from what I see they haven't
+> developed enough to do what I need.
+>
+> Could be that eventually, if I want to watch a video I'll just have to use
+> Chrome - no doubt what Google had in mind all along.
+>
+> TJ
+>
+
+For youtube you can enable HTML5. For the rest of the websites, I
+guess we'll use chrome :s
+
+-- 
+Diego Bello Carreño
+