[linux-audio-user] Solved: flash movie buffering problems

[Dana Olson]

On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 11:20 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 15:40 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > tim hall wrote:
> > > On Friday 22 September 2006 15:03, Lee Revell was like:
> > >> I would call it "sheer idiocy" and yet another reason Flash is evil.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, Flash is evil.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately most know-nothing computer users expect it to work out of the 
> > > box. What open-source alternative is there that gives the same kind of 
> > > scriptable interaction? The merciless MNG didn't turn out to be much of an 
> > > adversary did it?
> > 
> > The paradigm that Flash represents is great but the way they license it 
> > and continue to keep it private when it is very obviously a monopoly is 
> > evil.
> > 
> > It's still the most effective way to get high quality animation or video 
> > into a webpage and you know that 95% of the browsers in the world 
> > support it. Compared to embedded mpg, wmv or rm...
> 
> What's wrong with embedded .mpg or .wmv, other than being easy to
> download (or "pirate" if you talk to the content people).  Those work on
> a much wider range of OSes than Flash.
> 
> For example, why in the hell do YouTube and Google Video default to
> flash?  Embedded .mpg would be MUCH more user friendly.
> 
> Flash does not work at all on my Linux system (terrible AV sync,
> probably because my machine is slow), but I can watch DVD-quality .mpgs
> and .avis without dropping a frame.
> 
> Lee


The horrible AV sync has nothing to do with machine speed, and
everything to do with Flash 7 sucking on Linux.

They claim that Flash 9 will be fixed, as it uses ALSA I believe... And
I expect we'll get it when Windows users are at about version 12 or so.

Dana
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