[SoaS] Sugar on a Stick Flash compatibility?

[Sean DALY]

I was thinking more in the context of Sugar on a Stick booting a PC or netbook.

There is a vast amount of preexisting educational content for children
in Flash and we need to be able to tell teachers and parents what to
expect. Carlo sees what I mean.

The command line is terrifying for nongeeks, if there's no way to do
it in the interface we will need to write up a friendly procedure with
screenshots. The first item in the procedure will be some way of
checking they are online, which will be easy enough in Browse.

thanks

Sean


On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well the procedure would be simple enough.
>
> rpm -ivh http://location-too-repo-rpm-file
> yum install packages needed.
>
> I think, particularly on the XO-1, that flash is a bit heavy and that
> html 5 with open formats would work better.
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> thanks Peter yes the codecs issue is always slippery :-(
>>
>> Adobe quietly added Speex support to the latest version of Flash
>> Player, would be great if they did likewise with a video codec but I'm
>> not holding my breath. And of course that leaves us in the lurch for
>> vids in H.264, On2VP6, Sorenson Spark.
>>
>> I'm just wondering if we have gnash in there, if not will we be able
>> to publish a simple procedure for adding it?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Can someone remind me please how Flash content is supported in Sugar
>>>> on a Stick? Is Gnash in there, or needs to be added? I imagine the
>>>> Adobe plugin would need to be added by hand. I'm not sure we mention
>>>> what if anything stick preparers need to do to view online Flash
>>>> content?
>>>
>>> gnash, if present, would provide base flash support. Any video
>>> requirements etc would have to have the appropriate codecs installed
>>> and we can't ship them due to patent issues but they are available
>>> from the usual locations. Adobe Flash is obviously not shippable as
>>> its not open.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>
>