<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:36 PM, David Farning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org">dfarning@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Gross <<a href="mailto:daniel.gross@utoronto.ca">daniel.gross@utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:<br> > Hello,<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > I tried running youtube on the OLPC. The browser showed to click here to run<br> > flash, but flash never ran. Did anyone manage to run youtube in the browser?<br> > Is there a flash puggin needed? If so, does it exist?</div></div></blockquote><div><br>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)<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">FWIW,<br> <br> I have not been able to get youtube on gnash working on ubuntu 8.10<br> but it works fine on 9.04.<br> </blockquote><div>But Ubuntu as a rule doesn't work well on the XO :( <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> So, when sugar runs on ubuntu 9.04 we will be getting pretty close!</blockquote><div><br>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.<br clear="all"> </div></div><br>-- <br>Luke Faraone<br><a href="http://luke.faraone.cc">http://luke.faraone.cc</a><br>