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,

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 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, I don't run Fedora so

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

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

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 L