Ben is right on target. Rather than going "off shore" to support proprietary codecs, we should be advocating the use of FOSS codecs.
-walter On Jan 8, 2008 10:06 PM, Rob Savoye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > > > There might be some way to embed Theora in Flash in a way that Gnash can > play, > > but this will never work in Adobe Flash. I strongly advise that, for > OLPC, you > > avoid Flash altogether. > > Gnash can already handle both Ogg and Theora as external files just > fine. We're also modifying Ming to be able to generate swf files with > Ogg and Theora as embedded data. This requires extending the swf spec in > a way that still says compatible for FLV, ON2, and MP3. > > To go along with this, I've been working on a clone of the Adobe > Media Server, so we can steam free codecs. Right now you can only do > this with icecast, but it doesn't speak the flash protocols, which Gnash > now supports. > > - rob - > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org
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