David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > You do realize that there are free and open source Flash player > codebases, right? Also, the file format for Flash Video (FLV) is a > known format. Once you start taking apart the FLV file, you will > quickly see that the audio format (mp3) and video packets (mpeg4 with > h.264 or vp6 encoding) are known formats that are supported by open > source software.
That's very reassuring to know. So Dante wasn't quite right, was he? I do not *have* to install a closed-source binary plugin in order to watch YouTube videos in Firefox, do I? > So, it seems ridiculously easy to play a flash video file with open > source software, but if you want to write a custom operating system that > sets flags on processes that don't come with source code - you could do > that too. Well, it looks like I won't have to do that after all. That's definitely a relief. MS
