Oh dear. Googling HQTube ended up with the top 2 entries being porn sites :-/ I think something needs a project name change :)
Anyway, wouldn't there be a problem if we bundled HQTube because VLC/Xine/MPlayer would still need licensed codecs to be able to decode audio/video streams? (FFmpeg/Gstreamer Ugly). In the case of Flash, at least we'd have working sound because it's all good and licensed, unlike in the default GNASH install. Yeah, actually for the XO-1, I usually used Flashblock on Firefox and turn off plugins in Opera because of the limited CPU/Memory (the machine would actually hang in some cases like if you visit a Flash Papervision3D site). Aside from that, I also turn off Javascript -- the amount of AJAX used on the web these days is simply ridiculous and too much of a resource hog. Bash Flash all you want, but AJAX is just as bad. Video-wise, I don't think there's much hope with the XO-1 since a lot of video is now being streamed in high quality H.264, something which brings even faster systems to their knees. If we can get the Adobe guys to do some optimization for at least the XO-1.5 (which is where deployments are going anyway), that would be a very big thing. You never know, Adobe might actually take the time out to try to fix things with the XO-1 and XO-1.5 for hardware acceleration. Reuben, Ed, I'll try to help you guys on this. Tiago, thank you so much for Stallman's ebook link. Free as in Freedom is good. Closed-minded Fundamentalism is not. Regards, -Naz -- carlos nazareno http://twitter.com/object404 http://www.object404.com -- interactive media specialist zen graffiti studios http://www.zengraffiti.com -- "if you don't like the way the world is running, then change it instead of just complaining." _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
