13 Jun
2010
13 Jun
'10
12:33 a.m.
In light of all these announcements, it's strange that Adobe decided
to drop support for the linux 64 bit flash player (
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html ).
Checking http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/ , now I find that i386 10.1.53.64
is the only Linux release .
It looks like alternative architectures and platforms are going to be
Flash's Achilles heel: especially w/ the diversity of platforms that
mobile solutions will bring. I hope the open source community exploits
this weakness and will rally to help kick Flash and Adobe to the curb.
Multiplatform support is exactly what the open-source community does
well (e.g. http://www.linaro.org/ ).
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash gives some more information on
the "hope" of WebM and the timeframe when said curb-kicking might
start:
YouTube and WebM support
Google has recently open sourced VP8 video format and combined it
with Ogg Vorbis audio and a adaptation of the Matroska container
to create a new format for free and open video and audio called
WebM. YouTube is switching over to using WebM extensively and
Fedora has embraced this format as well. Fedora 13 and Fedora 12
has updates to Gstreamer multimedia framework to enable users to
play many YouTube videos directly without any use of Flash via
browsers such as Epiphany and Midori which use Gstreamer. Fedora
12 users also need the webkitgtk update. Once you have the updates
installed, to enable support for it in YouTube, go to
http://youtube.com/html5 and click on "Join the HTML5 Beta" link
in the bottom of that page. Note that all videos are not available
in WebM format yet but this is expected to happen over time. Here
( http://www.permadi.com/blog/2010/05/sample-webm-video-2/ )
is a sample video for testing. Fedora 14 will have more extensive
support for WebM by default.
Actually, it appears this will be supported well before Fedora14. Recent updates
indicate gstreamer-plugins now support VP8: libvpx-0.9.0-5.fc12.x86_64
( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593879 "Review Request:
libvpx - VP8 Video Codec SDK").
http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2010/05/31/youtube-out-of-the-box/
With today’s GStreamer update, you are able to watch
WebM
videos. That means you can enjoy Youtube with a stock Fedora
13. You need the following ingredients:
The updates-testing repository enabled until the update hits the
stable repository. A browser that uses GStreamer, such as
Epiphany or Midori. Opting in to the Youtube HTML5 beta. A
Youtube video that is already provided in WebM, such as this one (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W0zjXh6gXE ) This update will also
arrive in Fedora 12.
........
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#Installing_Gnash also points to
Gnash, which is unfortunately, hobbled by
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems :
Free alternatives to Adobe Flash
There is a free and open source alternative called Gnash available
in Fedora's package repositories. Gnash can play flash videos but
the audio portion of Flash is often under the MP3 format which is
patent encumbered. Since Gnash uses Gstreamer, you can get
additional codecs from other third party repositories but Fedora
unfortunately cannot include them. Scroll below for more details
on installing Gnash. ...
...........
Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
PS: Is there a "codec dynamic loader" for http://lame.sourceforge.net
, such that applications can be compiled once, and then, at load time,
dynamically load and support MP3 if the lame-libraries are present?
Seems like such a "meta-lame" package would solve all sorts of
problems, such as having to provide both "free" and never-up-to-date
"nonfree" versions of most audio editing software,
e.g.:audacity.x86_64 1.3.11-0.1.beta.fc12 @updates vs.
audacity-freeworld.x86_64 1.3.7-0.6.1.beta.fc11 rpmfusion-free.