Fedora's way forward

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Fri Mar 31 07:03:24 UTC 2006



Per Bjornsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 16:26 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 20:50 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote:
>>> Unfortunately it's probably not that easy to do something legal about
>>> Flash - at least if you want it to make sound... Doesn't Flash use MP3
>>> for audio? And what is the video format used in recent Flash versions?
>> Any sane flash player will use gstreamer for audio, surely?
> 
> Heh. Maybe you'd think so. Or perhaps Gnash isn't all that sane...
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/manual/gnash.html#codedepend doesn't
> make it sound like Gnash does anything like that. IMHO, that's pretty
> much why swfdec is a much more promising solution than Gnash.
> 

Actually gnash does use gstreamer, I guess that page is out of date. 
Also gnash gets a lot of active development and they are almost ready 
for the first plugin release, so my money is on gnash :)


Regards,

Hans




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