[Sugar-devel] youtube ...

[Sean DALY]

Video is, of course, the most "stressful" work one can ask of a
system, and the most common YouTube codecs these days (On2 VP6 and
H.264) are very processor-intensive.

Usually,the best workaround is to try to keep the framerate but
downsize to postage-stamp. No idea how that could be done though.

Sean


On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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
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