[IAEP] Video player for wiki.sugarlabs.org

[Hilaire Fernandes]

Habe you tried to activate this on the XO?

http://www.dailymotion.com/en/html5



Le 10/11/2011 19:20, Bernie Innocenti a écrit :
> On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 00:18 -0500, Chris Leonard wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bernie Innocenti
>> <bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>         On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 03:12 +0000, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
>>         wrote:
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > And... Why not use Adobe Flash? Problems with the license?
>>         
>>         
>>         Yes, it's not even redistributable. Besides, there's no ARM
>>         version for
>>         the XO-1.75.
>>         
>>         And even if both problems were solved, flash is typically too
>>         slow to
>>         play videos on hardware as the XO-1. On the XO-1.5 it's barely
>>         acceptable for low resolution videos.
>>         
>>         
>>         
>>
>> Gnash overcomes the redistribution issue, but not necessarily the
>> performance ones.
> 
> Yes. Quite frankly, Gnash is still so bad that it'd be inclined to
> remove it altogether from XO distributions.
> 
> One could make a case that half-broken flash support is still better
> than nothing, but I think it makes us look worse than systems like iOS
> and Android which don't provide flash at all.
> 
> Moreover, some video sites detect the presence of flash and use it
> instead of HTML5 <video>. Daily Motion is one of these.
> 
> 
>> Sugar Labs has friends in the Gnash community we could ask about this,
>> they've been working (with some sucecss, I think) on XO 1.75
>> implemetnation and of course, we do host their PO files for L10n, and
>> have recently upstreamed a number of completed L10ns.
> 
> I use Gnash on my computer and I report bugs to the developers from time
> to time. Though, after so many years of development, I'm starting to
> suspect that HTML5 will make Flash irrelevant before Gnash replaces it.
> 


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