On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Eric Chadbourne <[email protected] > wrote:
> I've heard some smart folks say flash is needed for live streaming and > nothing else is nearly as good. I've heard them say there is no good open > source option. If this is true, why? Surely there's no magic sauce in > there that couldn't be replicated, or even done better. Is it more of a > matter of plugin saturation? Just curious. There are FLOSS Flash replacements, but they're iffy, may or may not work with a given site. I suspect the reason for requiring Flash for streaming is to make downloading-via-stream © violation harder. Supposedly they'll support HTML5 in the brave new world, but i suspeccit was HTML5 in my flash-free Cromium that was crashing the GPU/video-driver on multimedia. -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
