Hi Sandro,
Thanks for your reply and suggestion. I've made a request to
videolectures.net to make that change, if possible and till then I'll stick
to vlc plugin for the videos.

Thanks again.
Anurag

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Sandro Santilli <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Anurag,
> thanks for your feedback, I'm glad Gnash can help you in your everyday
> web surfing.
>
> Unfortunately the videolectures.net SWF based player targets
> a platform which isn't going to be supported by Gnash any soon (AVM2).
>
> YouTube developers have been nice with Gnash users in distributing a less
> demanding application to those using Gnash as a flash plugin. Maybe you
> could ask videolectures.net people to do something similar. It would be
> enough to set SWF version to 8 rather than 10 as it is now, for the
> simplest possible way to do that.
>
> In any case, if VLC plugin works that's likely the best way to view those
> movies as Flash-based players are intrinsically slower and consume more
> CPU and memory resources than a bare media player.
>
> --strk;
>
>  ()   Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer
>  /\   http://strk.keybit.net/services.html
>
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:09:42AM +0530, Anurag Garg wrote:
> > Dear Gnash Devs'
> > I, Anurag Garg, a physics teacher by profession and a open source
> > contributor by hobby. When ever I use to upgrade/reinstall fedora on my
> pc I
> > use to first give a try to gnash and then only moved to flash. Recently
> when
> > I upgraded to Fedora 15 (Last weak) I was happily surprise to see all my
> you
> > tube videos were working with gnash plugin support. Seriously, it is a
> very
> > good answer to adobe flash when they have dropped support for 64bit linux
> > version. It also give assurance to users like me that gnash is there to
> stay
> > and improving at a much faster rate.
> >
> > Along with youtube support would it be possible for gnash to support
> > videolectures.net, it is a free site to offer seminars, workshops and
> > lectures from through out the world on almost all the different variety
> of
> > subject. They currently make use of either wmv or flash format and does
> not
> > give permission to download and convert there content format due to
> pending
> > copyright status. So, one has to see it online and unfortunately gnash is
> > not able to support this site. I am currently using vlc plugin. But it
> will
> > good to see gnash supporting other flash based sites along with youtube.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Great work with Gnash
> > Keep it Up
> >
> > Anurag Garg
>
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