On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Carlos Nazareno <object...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Oh dear. Googling HQTube ended up with the top 2 entries being porn > sites :-/ I think something needs a project name change :) > Indeed, hence the link in my e-mail, to avoid confusion. > > 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. > I don't think H.264 needs licensed codecs but I'm not sure on that. > > 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). > I do the same on the XO 1.5 > > 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. > I'll check how well the XO-1 can handle it when I find time to test it out better. > > 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. > > I wouldn't rest on that, but one can try. > Reuben, Ed, I'll try to help you guys on this. > > Tiago, thank you so much for Stallman's ebook link. > > You're welcome. Best regards, Tiago > 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 >
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