> Miriam Ruiz writes: > > 2008/3/18, Russ Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Let me suggest something different to you: a Mozilla plug-in which > > > plays videos encoded in Ogg/Theora for video and Ogg/Vorbis for > audio, > > > and which uses BitTorrent with threads to download. > > > > Does anyone know any of these? > > > > http://www.scvi.net/stream/soft.htm > > Wow. So, really, it looks like the problem is not that the software > doesn't exist, but instead that nobody has been able to create > critical mass for their software. Only Adobe Flash has been able to > do that, and everybody expects Microsoft to do it with Silverlight.
That's what I meant. There are two good technologies - Bittorrent and Flash. Both gained the critical mass, but all projects trying to get P2P and Multimedia together haven't as they are to complex for the user (extra client software for P2P, ...). But Gnash can do with the argument "Hey, we have a working GPLed Adobe Flash replacement and by the way, you can also play Bittorrent media streams!". That way the "GPLed Adobe Flash replacement" is the argument to gain the critical mass and Bittorrent capability/GPL is the argument to gain ground over Adobe. The user would just have to install Gnash and everything else would work out of the box from the browser. The content provider wouldn't need much bandwith and could just use Website/Flash for the user interface. That's what users and content providers want - simple low-resource solutions! And as this is based on two accepted standards the complete solutions is quite standardized. And here's your chance ;) Renne _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
