Quoting Gabriele Giacone (1o5g4...@gmail.com): > [ CC'ing Didier actual lightspark maintainer, not subscribed ] > > On 06/26/2012 05:13 PM, Touko Korpela wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:27:21PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >> [Christian PERRIER] > >>> So both can coexist peacefully? > >> > >> I believe so. I have not checked it myself, but know there were talk about > >> having lightspark calling gnash when it found AVM1 flash files. Not sure > >> if both browsers plugin should be installed, or only the lightspark one > >> and the gnash standalone program. > > > > Flash maintainers, can you tell about compatibility of these plugins > > and what packages should be installed by default in wheezy? > > They coexist and are complementary to provide a full flash experience. > By installing browser-plugin-lightspark, it recommends gnash standalone > so they are both installed and as Petter said LS falls back to gnash if > flash is AVM1. > > Currently LS supports these [SITES] i.e. BBC News and partially > Grooveshark, Google StreetView, Youtube. > Youtube is the most visited and is a special case: if site detects > gnash, it provides an AVM1 video player gnash can play very well, > otherwise an AVM2 one LS plays with some limitations (progress bar is > unusable, changing volume level is pretty hard, no fullscreen). > Moreover to play yt movies better it would also need current [LIBXML++] > patched and xul-ext-adblock-plus is more than recommended, without it > many videos don't start due to ads lightspark can't play. IIRC that > affects BBC site too. > I think ideal would be forcing LS fall back to gnash also if site is > youtube. No idea about how to implement that. > An alternative could be also installing browser-plugin-gnash to make > possible at least easily switching between them through alternatives > system (e.g. b-p-lightspark Recommends b-p-gnash instead of gnash).
Thanks for the detailed answer. Am I correct concluding that we can safely add browser-plugin-lightspark to the desktop task?
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