Programmer in Training wrote:
Quoting Polytropon <[email protected]>:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training
<[email protected]> wrote:
Almost all Internet video
has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net
which my church uses).
That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are
moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and
open standards for their videos so they can access a bigger
That's a no-go, I have it on good authority that h.264 was chosen over
Theora. That along with mpeg-la having put out a press release saying it
won't charge royalties for "free" uses of some of it's patents several
months ago[0], while I would love for Theora to have won out as the
standard, once again corporate interest (this time a big push from
Apple, from what I understand) has won out.
And Mozilla won't use H264. Also add into the mix that Google has just
bought VP8 and open sourced it. Mozilla supports VP8 but Apple is
already dissing it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/20/apple-steve-jobs-vp8-patent
So I think we have a very long way to go before we can stop using flash
for web based video.
(According to wikipedia Theora is a fork of VP3 which the developer On2
released some time ago. VP6 made into macromedia flash codec. So On2's
codecs have a long history of video on the web.)
won't support it. But that's all irregardless to the OPs question of
bugginess on FreeBSD. If the Linux emulation isn't enough and there is
no option but to switch to an entirely different platform, why even
provide such an option? Linux emulation takes up a lot of resources
(space wise on the drive).
Flash video works absolutely fine here and there is a lot of great
content and interesting and entertaining material out there. I'm really
grateful to the FreeBSD developers for getting it working so well :)
FreeBSD muji2.config 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar
24 11:51:43 GMT 2010 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
i386
firefox-3.5.8,1
linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42
flashblock 1.5.13 # This may be a critical feature of a successful
flash intallation.
Chris
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