Well you can also read web pages like mr. RMS, but that's far from acceptable as any shape or form of good user experience.
You can also use gnash or swfdec plugins which are open-source flash players, but they're also unusable at this point. Maybe in future versions. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Michael Sokolov <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
