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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
