Gnash - Yay or Nay?
Should gnash continue to be included in Trisquel by default?
In the current 5.0 Alpha, watching videos on the Khan Academy cause the browser to crash almost right away.
(example http://www.khanacademy.org/video/scale-of-earth-and--sun?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy )
Youtube now offers the choice of using html5 ( http://www.youtube.com/html5 ), which I think is a better solution, and leaving gnash out by default, leaving the choice to install it up to the user.
El sáb, 06-08-2011 a las 12:02 +0200, Daemonax escribió:
> Should gnash continue to be included in Trisquel by default?
>
> In the current 5.0 Alpha, watching videos on the Khan Academy cause the
> browser to crash almost right away.
> (example
> http://www.khanacademy.org/video/scale-of-earth-and--sun?playlist=Cosmology%20and%20Astronomy
> )
In deed, on my Virtual machine it crashed on that link.
>
> Youtube now offers the choice of using html5 ( http://www.youtube.com/html5
> ), which I think is a better solution, and leaving gnash out by default,
> leaving the choice to install it up to the user.
Gnash is not only made to play videos on Youtube, it's used on several
sites. Besides gnash can play the non-WebM/HTML5 videos.
As a note, my Slaine plays the video correctly with icecat+gnash, so
maybe is a matter of testing a beta release of Dagda.
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> As a note, my Slaine plays the video correctly with icecat+gnash, so
> maybe is a matter of testing a beta release of Dagda.
You are using icecat + gnash and not webbrowser + gnash?
It could be an issue with the browser/gnash on dagda.
Gnash seems to be very hit and miss outside of youtube though.
It's a shame that we're not in a position to push more sites to change
to html5 for their videos.
Khan Academy nice idea, nice web site. Pity about Gates and Khan at TED. Khan Academy is now supported by the Gates Foundation. :(
On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 13:50 +0200, name at domain wrote:
> Khan Academy nice idea, nice web site. Pity about Gates and Khan at TED. Khan
> Academy is now supported by the Gates Foundation. :(
So what? It's providing a massively useful service, the code is free
software too as far as I know, and you can download the videos from a
number of sources.
It doesn't matter who is funding it.
It matters hugely who's funding it. If only in terms of the use of free software. I think you'll find, once Gates is involved, the site will over time, begin to use, or encourage/require the use of, more proprietary (aka Microsoft) software.
On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 14:02 +0200, name at domain wrote:
> It matters hugely who's funding it. If only in terms of the use of free
> software. I think you'll find, once Gates is involved, the site will over
> time, begin to use, or encourage/require the use of, more proprietary (aka
> Microsoft) software.
This is off topic and is nothing but surmise.
On topic, it seems that when gnash crashes it only takes down icecat,
but webbrowser, or firefox remain fine.
Perhaps we could forget icecat as the default for 5.0.