In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > <meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes: > > > >> got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and >> may other parts. > > Well, I was "noodling" around the net about video (VP8) and there > seems to be a war brewing. As you know, Google is has open sourced > VP8 as a replacement for H.264. It seems that the web browser > groups each pay millions of dollars per year to be able to give > away a browser that supports h.264 streaming video. > > h.264 is everywhere, cell phone apps, HDTV, utube, just to > name a few. Now Theora was based on an old codec (vp3) I believe. > Google purchased the company that developed VP8 and purports > it to replace h.264. > > > Naturally MPLA (the stinking lawyers behind h.246) is upset > because the financial rewards of the the patents behind h.264 > are worth an enormous sum of money, over the next few decades. > VP8 is not threating that. If you saw my post on Nokia and Microsoft > going down the darkside together (very strange), what I did not > say is that Balmer is pushing the bussword "EcoSystem" composed > of Xbox-live, Office and Bing. > > Google has that and more. Apple has their own "EcoSystem". > > Many Browsers will be dropping support for h.264 in the near > future, and streaming video, at least in the short run, > is now fair game and going to be not interoperable. > > Is this your problem? Maybe, maybe not. Drop back a version > and see if it fixes your problem. > > Better still, one of the young (smart) kids on this list > prolly (guesses?) knows all about this. If it is not your > problem now, it surely will be *REAL SOON*; as it will > become everybody's problem as the Economic Giants scratch > out and protect their "video EcoSystems". Stock prices > are more of a concern to these titans, than piss_ants > consumuers (that's what they ALL really see in us). So > do not be fool, Google is as big a whore as the rest, imho. > Google has well intentioned folks, but to quote an old addage > "Money talks and Bullshit walks"....... > > > hth, > James
IME most video on the web can be viewed with mplayer, if you can get a link to the actual file. I often download flv files and use ffmpeg to reencode them as mp4. Works even for videos that the linux flashplayer can't handle. I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight though, running win7 in vbox works but I shouldn't have to do all that... -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
