Trying out swfdec for Fedora 11

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:26:27AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 > Bill Nottingham wrote:
 > > Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
 > >> In the last few weeks, I have been using swfdec in rawhide and it has  
 > >> been working quite well for my limited usage. Should we include swfdec  
 > >> by default in rawhide for Fedora 11 right after the Fedora 10 release?
 > > 
 > > Well, we tried it before and weren't very successful. It may be worth
 > > trying again, and just throwing every single flash site in existence
 > > at it to see what dies.
 > 
 > Yes, I am aware we tried before but the situation seems substantial 
 > improved to me, now.
 > 
 > Can you post the list of flash sites, we tried with before? If users 
 > have (esp popular ) sites, that aren't working yet, that list would be 
 > very useful as well.

I made a post a few days ago that mentioned that other than youtube,
I haven't found many sites that work at all.

Since then, I was actually pleasantly surprised that the CNN
election map widget worked last night, so it's not complete loss.
Sites that use flash as UI widgets seem to mostly work these days.

Where it seems to still really fall over though are sites that
stream media (be that video, audio or both).  For some reason
the code that was implemented for making youtube work isn't universal
enough that other sites 'just work'.  Maybe it just needs some
small tweaks.
Off the top of my head, sites I found that don't work -

vimeo.com
ovi.com
myspace.com
ustream.tv  (spectacular fail!)
justin.tv (more awesome fail!)
cnn.com (any of the video news stories)
news.bbc.co.uk (same)
finance.google.com (click the graph)

There's probably a bunch of others that I tried that failed, but
I'd have to go power up my mac to dig out the bookmarks to find the rest.

	Dave

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