Proposal: Install swfdec by default.

[Valent Turkovic]

On Jan 29, 2008 3:12 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 15:08 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>
> > That clarifies a bit. So in other words this would not play youtube.
> > Firefox would not suggest installing proprietary codecs as it would
> > see flash plugin installed (firefox doesn't check if it actually plays
> > video) and it will be happy with that.
> >
> > IMHO this will lead to lot of users calling firefox and/or fedora
> > broken as legal restrictions posed on fedora will make this flash
> > playback feature broken by design if users expect or want something
> > more that just flash adds which work without codecs.
>
> While I agree that the situation wrt to flash video is a sad one, swfdec
> is not 'just for ads'. A lot of flash games work fine with it.

I haven't tested this so I can't confirm, but what games have you
tested? I don't play flash games so I'm not the one to ask how many
games on average work or don't work with swfdec but I can look at it
if you know of some popular flash gaming urls. I know that I can
google it but I'm not sure if the ones google finds are the one that
people actually use the most...


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