On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:40:34AM +1000, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > Dean Hamstead wrote: > >http://australianscreen.com.au/help/ > > > >some may be happy to note that in the FAQ w3c standards compliance is > >mentioned, ie, safari and ff are listed as should work perfectly. lynx > >even gets a mention > > > >quicktime, miro and vlc are mentioned as possible media players > > > >so there is a win for standards and open source. > > Not quite... > > >What software do I need to view the video clips? > > > >The clips embedded in the web pages require Adobe Flash Player version 7 > >or > better..... > > > >The downloadable clips are provided at a higher quality, > >and use a newer format called H.264 Mpeg 4. > http://australianscreen.com.au/help/ > > While, there is a Free Flash Player available for Linux - I don't think it > is open source.
The Gnash project from GNU is developing a Free Flash player. It's recent 0.8.0 release allows Flash video to be played from sites like YouTube. I haven't tried it with the Australian Screen site. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/release-0.8.0.txt > > With regard to MPEG4 and H.264 see > >If operating and/or shipping a product in a country or group of countries > >where none of the patents covering H.264 apply, then using, for example, > >an LGPL implementation of the codec is not a problem: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Patent_licensing> > > But ofcourse providing online free access to the content is a great leap > forward...<http://australianscreen.com.au/about/terms/> > > m > -- > Marghanita da Cruz > http://www.ramin.com.au > Phone: 0414 869202 > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
