On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:22:08PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 19:09 +0100, tim hall wrote: > > .mpg is great for video. I agree that flash players for other media > > suck. However .mpg doesn't provide animated vector graphics with > > scriptable interactivity, unless I've missed something. > > Yes but who really cares about Flash games? YouTube is THE killer app > of the web right now and Linux users are locked out. I use a perl script called youtube-dl to grab video from youtube and then watch them in Mplayer. It is ugly, but on the upside, it doesn't require flash player, which I feel has a heavy destablizing effect. Plus, mplayer is better at supporting alsa or jack than flash player is. -- Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.jdboyd.net/ http://www.joshuaboyd.org/
