[Sugar-devel] youtube ...

[David Farning]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:36 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Gross <daniel.gross at utoronto.ca>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I tried running youtube on the OLPC. The browser showed to click here to
>> > run
>> > flash, but flash never ran. Did anyone manage to run youtube in the
>> > browser?
>> > Is there a flash puggin needed? If so, does it exist?
>
> Gnash, which OLPC uses by default, is terrible in that version of the OS.
> Even if you installed the official Flash plugin from Adobe, it is too much
> overhead for the XO to handle. The best Youtube support I have seen on the
> XO is in debxo using totem plugins (written in C afaict and directly playing
> the video file through RSS magic)
>
>>
>> FWIW,
>>
>> I have not been able to get youtube on gnash working on ubuntu 8.10
>> but it works fine on 9.04.
>
> But Ubuntu as a rule doesn't work well on the XO :(
>
>>
>> So, when sugar runs on ubuntu 9.04 we will be getting pretty close!
>
> I have not tried the latest version of Gnash in Jaunty, but if this is the
> case it will be most welcome, and will greatly ease the deployment of Sugar
> in schools.
>
Still no luck getting the standard 9.04 Sugar packages to install and
run on Sugar.  I could not do more testing of gnash in Sugar.

But, when viewing youtube videos in gnash/firefox viewer on gnome both
CPUs maxed out on my dual core 1.6GHz laptop:(

david