How about a browser option or some kind of browser plugin which would say something like: "When detecting Youtube embeds on web pages, display a play icon instead of trying to display the embeded flash video, when clicked that would launch the streaming of the mp4 file playback using mplayer" This or/and a Youtube activity with full Youtube API support would be great.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz < [email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yuan Chao wrote: > > As the Gnash on XO is w/o necessary codec compiled in and Adobe flash > > performance is poor on XO, would it be a good solution to watch > > YouTube with an external media player? > > I think that is a great idea. In fact, it is exactly what Apple did with > the iPhone, which has a direct YouTube browser. In our case, a "YouTube > Activity" would be a great solution. For similar approaches on Linux, see > > http://tecnocode.co.uk/2007/10/12/totem-youtube-plugin/ > > http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/04/04/play-youtube-videos-from-the-totem-movie-player/ > http://www.soccio.it/michelinux/2008/03/29/h264-youtube-video-in-totem/en/ > > There are a number of interesting hurdles to jump, like whether to require > the user to install proprietary codecs themselves or ship them in the > activity bundle, but either way I think it is a good idea. > > - --Ben > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmDIUEACgkQUJT6e6HFtqQh6gCbBi6JTT9p8+FYcxu39fuIddPa > CMEAn12E34U43m1hRtZ+MI79udZdhTxn > =CzBC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Olpc-open mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open > -- Charbax, Nicolas Charbonnier
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