Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)

2009-01-03 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Brian Pepple bpep...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Quick clarification. We discussed making swfdec installed by default during the development of Fedora 9, but decided against doing so since we felt it wasn't quite ready for that. Ah, thanks for the clarification,

Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)

2009-01-03 Thread Peter Robinson
I'm not sure if it was considered, but as the maintainer of swfdec in Fedora I can state that swfdec is very cpu-intensive, and I have my doubts whether the performance on the XO would be comparable to gnash's, though it might be worth investigating. That has been my experience too, but I

Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)

2009-01-01 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
Hello everyone, (top-posting due to tangent nature of discussion) Just a thought here, in my experience, swfdec[1] works far better than gnash for flash websites; why not use that? There's a Firefox/Gecko plugin called swfdec-mozilla which works beautifully. swfdec{,-mozilla} use gstreamer, are

Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)

2009-01-01 Thread Brian Pepple
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 14:16 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: swfdec{,-mozilla} use gstreamer, are LGPLed, and support most of the Flash 9 features whereas gnash supports only a few of the Flash 9 features. swfdec is also the default Flash player on Fedora, and is the preferred flash player on

Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)

2009-01-01 Thread Peter Robinson
swfdec{,-mozilla} use gstreamer, are LGPLed, and support most of the Flash 9 features whereas gnash supports only a few of the Flash 9 features. swfdec is also the default Flash player on Fedora, and is the preferred flash player on Ubuntu. Quick clarification. We discussed making swfdec

Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC

2008-12-31 Thread genesee
Dear =S Page, As the social analog of town drunk on this list, I am flattered as hell to be lumped in with the smart set! ¡Gracias! genesee S Page-2 wrote: you're just making the smart smarter still. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Installing-Flash

Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC

2008-12-30 Thread S Page
Dear genesee, Carlos Nazareno, Everybody, gently Many more people are going to read http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash page than follow this mailing list. Your effect on XO users by only answering problems here is limited, you're just making the smart smarter still. Just in time for New

Installing Flash on the OLPC

2008-12-29 Thread shivaprasad javali
Hi, I am trying to install Adobe Flash Player on my OLPC. I followed the instructions on this page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash#Installationto install the flash player. According to it, I have to remove the GNASH plugin which comes with the OLPC before I install Flash. I want

Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC

2008-12-29 Thread Carlos Nazareno
2008 19:09:01 +0530 From: shivaprasad javali jbs...@gmail.com Subject: Installing Flash on the OLPC To: OLPC Devel Devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 116515210812290539u2915289bx5768336a4abd...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, I am trying to install

Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC

2008-12-29 Thread C. Scott Ananian
2008/12/29 shivaprasad javali jbs...@gmail.com: Hi, I am trying to install Adobe Flash Player on my OLPC. I followed the instructions on this page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash#Installation to install the flash player. According to it, I have to remove the GNASH plugin which

Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC

2008-12-29 Thread genesee
, for what it's worth. --scott -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Installing-Flash-on-the-OLPC-tp2088845p2091001.html Sent from the Software development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Devel mailing list Devel