FC11 - flash plugin for Firefox

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Aug 24 15:47:51 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 11:04 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote:
> I wonder if any graphics chips will provide a flash decoder so that
> all the host has to do is send the flash stream directly to the
> graphics controller.

Potentially that sort of thing might be possible, when you consider that
some Flash videos are just a container for playing an ordinary video
file within the page.  e.g. A MPEG player.

However, you have to consider that a lot of Flash usage on the web is
designed to make it next to impossible to do anything other than stream
the video from their website, to retain their control over their data.
I could only foresee limited potential for this.  As soon as publishers
decide to change their techniques, again, to protect their data, you'd
probably have to change playback hardware.

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