FC11 - flash plugin for Firefox

[Markus Kesaromous]

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> From: ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:17:51 +0930
> Subject: RE: FC11 - flash plugin for Firefox
>
> 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.
>
> --
> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I
> read messages from the public lists.
>

Excellent point Tim. Thanks!
Meanwhile, I will try to see if there is a contact at Adobe to tell them about their plugin's bad behaviour.

Cheers,

MK

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