F9 Test Request - swfdec

[Brian Pepple]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 11:08 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:34:55AM -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Adam Pribyl <pribyl at lowlevel.cz> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, James Laska wrote:
> > >
> > > > A rawhide test result summary is available at:
> > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestResults/Fedora9Swfdec/Rawhide
> > >
> > >  This does not look very promissing...
> > 
> > I think that there are probably a lot more flash apps out there that
> > swfdec *does* work with - just no one has taken the time to report
> > them.
> 
> What's with considering proprietary codecs as failures (red)?  Most 
> flash out there is going to need proprietary or patent-encumbered 
> codecs.  I still think there is enormous value in shipping swfdec in 
> Fedora, even if they require proprietary codecs to work on e.g. 
> Youtube.  I've had success with Youtube, with the problem that video 
> playback terminates about 3/4 or 7/8 of the way through them.
> 
> I say ship it, which is the only way it will get wide enough use and 
> testing which will hopefully result in these types of bugs being 
> fixed.
> 

I think we've fix bug #441617, which was causing most of the failures
that Bill was seeing.  I want to do a little more quick testing, and if
I see no major problems, I'll post a link to a scratch build of swfdec
with the fix for you guys.

Later,
/B
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Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org>

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