[sugar] testing websites and online-services that potential G1G1 buyers might be interested in

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Hello Walter,

thanks a lot for the quick reply!

 > Most of the problem sites you cite are correlated to the presence of 
codecs as opposed to any inherent problem with the browser itself.

I was really looking for the "out-of-the-box" experience that G1G1 
purchasers would have at the moment so I didn't go as far as installing 
any additional codecs yesterday. Is there going to be some kind of easy 
mechanism for getting missing codecs within Sugar?

 > What version of Gnash are you running? (There is a more recent one 
that will be shipped with the G1G1 machines.)

I'm running Gnash 0.8.1 which seems to be the latest version according 
to the Gnash website.

 > What version of the browser itself? (There are many changes and 
improvements since 624.)

Not sure exactly which browse version it is but I'm using the vanilla 
624 build so that's the one. Can't wait to look at the latest versions!

 > Did you load Watch&Listen, which is a dedicated media player and will 
be on the G1G1 builds?

Thanks for advice, I definitely missed that one. Installed watch & 
listen today and things worked smoothly, definitely a much better 
experience than using eToys for playback. Also tested most of the 
samples from Media_files.zip that's linked on the test page for watch & 
listen (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tests/Watch_and_Listen). Most formats 
I tried, except for the .wmv file, seemed to work just fine. Will w & l 
be skinnable at some point in the future? Could be a nice feature to set 
the default skin to the colours that the children also select for their 
X0...

 >Did you try downloading any of the proprietary codecs, such as Adobe 
Flash or the Real codecs?

Downloaded the Adobe Flash codec 
(http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux) 
and that allowed me to look at Flash-based online-videos on YouTube, 
MyVideo, Red Hat Magazine, Cranky Geeks, etc. However most of the time 
it wasn't a smooth experience with frequent slowdowns and a 
slideshow-like performance. CPU utilization always maxed out at 100% 
when watching any of these videos.

A longer description of today's testing can be found at: 
http://christoph-d.blogspot.com/2007/11/some-more-xo-testing.html

Best regards,
Christoph

 > regards.
 > -walter