1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
|
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] Flash videos
</TITLE>
<LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" >
<LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Flash%20videos&In-Reply-To=%3CCAJyy6US1Y2WjDt_2JnLwP8HVa8Jsz0ePrMvxMJ0mP4R7AwkuiQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<LINK REL="Previous" HREF="007840.html">
<LINK REL="Next" HREF="007842.html">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Flash videos</H1>
<B>Diego Bello</B>
<A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Flash%20videos&In-Reply-To=%3CCAJyy6US1Y2WjDt_2JnLwP8HVa8Jsz0ePrMvxMJ0mP4R7AwkuiQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E"
TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Flash videos">dbello at gmail.com
</A><BR>
<I>Wed Jun 13 15:28:34 CEST 2012</I>
<P><UL>
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007840.html">[Mageia-discuss] Flash videos
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="007842.html">[Mageia-discuss] QA bugs for MGA1 and MGA2
</A></li>
<LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B>
<a href="date.html#7841">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#7841">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#7841">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#7841">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<HR>
<!--beginarticle-->
<PRE>On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:35 AM, TJ <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">andrewsfarm at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> On 06/13/2012 05:23 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> On 13/06/12 09:42, andre999 wrote:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> TJ a écrit :
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>>>>><i> Oops. Should have looked before asking that last question. I see
</I>>>>><i> Lightspark is a dependency for Gnash.
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> But do they make a functional alternative to Adobe's offering...
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> TJ
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> I tried Gnash a couple of years ago and wasn't impressed.  But now
</I>>>><i> I block flash by default (and rarely unblock) so I couldn't say.
</I>>>><i> When I tried it before, it could be installed the same time as
</I>>>><i> Flash. The latest version is in core.  So why not try it and see ?
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> As I understand it, Adobe is planning to phase out support for all
</I>>>><i> flash in favour of something based on HTML5, but I could be
</I>>>><i> mistaken.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i> The current version is, according to Adobe, the last one that will be
</I>>><i> released for Linux.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Anne
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Yes, something about a deal with Google that future Linux versions of the
</I>><i> plugin will be a part of Chrome and not released separately. Mozilla refused
</I>><i> to go along. I don't know the details, including whether the new
</I>><i> Flash-players will work with Chromium as well.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I'm a farmer, and I sometimes miss the local TV weather broadcast, but I can
</I>><i> watch a Flash video of it on the station's website if I do. Also, from time
</I>><i> to time I like to watch videos from the local newspaper, and of course,
</I>><i> Youtube. Not to mention the occasional instructional video.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I tried both Gnash and Lightspark from the repositories, finding that only
</I>><i> one Flash-playing plugin is allowed in Firefox. Only Adobe's offering played
</I>><i> everywhere. Gnash seemed to work OK with Youtube, but not with some other
</I>><i> sites, like that TV site mentioned above. Lightspark wasn't much, if any,
</I>><i> better. Looking at the web pages for each, I see that each has had a release
</I>><i> newer than the one in the repositories, but from what I see they haven't
</I>><i> developed enough to do what I need.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Could be that eventually, if I want to watch a video I'll just have to use
</I>><i> Chrome - no doubt what Google had in mind all along.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> TJ
</I>><i>
</I>
For youtube you can enable HTML5. For the rest of the websites, I
guess we'll use chrome :s
--
Diego Bello Carreño
</PRE>
<!--endarticle-->
<HR>
<P><UL>
<!--threads-->
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007840.html">[Mageia-discuss] Flash videos
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="007842.html">[Mageia-discuss] QA bugs for MGA1 and MGA2
</A></li>
<LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B>
<a href="date.html#7841">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#7841">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#7841">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#7841">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<hr>
<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss
mailing list</a><br>
</body></html>
|
