2006/3/28, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto <casimiro.barreto@xxxxxxxxx>: > Rudolf Kastl escreveu: > (...) > Supporting Flash seems to soak up most of the problem that can be solved, > eg, youtube, Google Video, and if you have 32-bit firefox you can have it. > Seems the only answer for Quicktime and such is the corporate mantrap that > is Mplayer, it makes no sense for Redhat to invite attack on their cash by > playing that game. There is no limit to the number of dangerous proprietary > formats that one could address by that logic. > flash isnt a standard... how about creating a new better technology and > obsolete it? flash requires mp3 for sound playback... so even if a gpl > implementation exists it wont be going into extras... id just forget about > flash and look "forward". personally i wont run a 32 bit browser on my 64 > bit system just to get the closed source garbage working. only real use case > for flash would be watching some funny movies... as far as regular webpages > go... i am not a flash fan at all, but thats just me... > > Yeah... but the thousand flies that like SoundClick, PureVolume, > 15megsoffame, etc... etc... etc... not to mention the Internet radios and > other multimedia sites fell like compelled to use M$ or Apple OS X ??? > > > > > *not optional* in 2006, any more than the ability to read Microsoft Word > files in a word processor is optional; if we try to treat them that way, > consumers will blow Linux off. Evangelizing for SVG and O > gg Consumers mostly just dont know that they are using worse > legacy formats like mp3 when they have superior formats such as > ogg available... i think thats a plain educational problem. > > Just as OS2 was superior of NT4.0... Hey... that's nonsense... most portable > players just play MP3, WMA, WMV, MPG and AVI. The others are rare, expensive > and have exotic interfaces... Not to talk about the digital sound systems > that we have at home, at our cars, etc... Try to play OGG/Theora in your DVD > player at home... Try to play OGG/Theora on your PS2... That's not > educational problem that's practical problem... Or just as amiga was better than atari st... or was it atari st that was better than amiga? ;)) (throwing a small flame bait j/k). The practical solution is to demand proper devices with proper support for the best available means to encode/decode sound and video. Get linux on your ps/2 btw... problem solved. > > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
