[Trac #1103] web/flash unusable, even with old stuff

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#1103: web/flash unusable, even with old stuff
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 Reporter:  AlbertCahalan  |        Owner:  rsavoye
     Type:  defect         |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  high           |    Milestone:  BTest-3
Component:  distro         |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:  flash          |  
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Comment (by rsavoye):

 Replying to [comment:16 jg]:
 > OK, Rob's latest version seems significantly better and is in the build
 as of 364; we also have Flash 9 as a drop in possibility.  Gnash won't
 handle youtube in this build; dunno why not.

   Because the YouTube video player uses some odd behaviours of Flash 8
 that don't work 100% correctly yet in Gnash. Other video streaming sites,
 like lulu.tv work. Fixing the YouTube problems are a top priority for
 Gnash these days, as we plan to have this fully working in our next
 release. Video works, it's just a matter of the ActionScript code used to
 invoke the video. So some sites work, and others don't just yet...

 > We should probably create a gnash component. http://cat-in-the-
 kettle.funnypart.com/ still gives gnash serious indigestion. Rob, how do
 you want to handle problem reports with gnash?

   The ideal way to handle bugs is to report them on our savannah site at
 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnash, or email them to gnash-
 dev at gnu.org, or drop onto #gnash on freenode. Otherwise myself and other
 Gnash developers will check this site. It looks like this particular movie
 has embedded video. It works fine on my desktop, but on the OLPC I get
 audio, but no video. This seems to be an issue where ffmpeg works better
 than gstreamer, but ffmpeg isn't available on the OLPC. I used libMad in
 my build for audio, so had working sound, and Gstreamer for the video
 support. Gstreamer has no FLV support however, so we're almost done our
 own FLV decoding library that should work equally well with either.

 > joaoboscoapf: directions are now in the wiki about how to customize your
 own image before installation across multiple machines. No matter what,
 you'll want to customize: the MP3 patent situation keeps us from shipping
 a version of gnash with MP3 built in from this jurisdiction.  Adobe Flash
 requires a license to ship bundled, though as an end user it is free as in
 beer to you to use.

   Installing Adobe Flash instead of gnash is pretty simple. Just copy the
 libflashplugin.so from the Flash release, and copy it to
 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. I can write a shell script to do this if you'd
 like. We currently use ffmpeg, libMad, or Gstreamer for MP3 support, the
 Gstreamer implementaion is supposedly "legal" (if you use their binary
 plugin). We can configure Gnash to support whichever backend is prefered
 by configuring with the --with-mp3-decoder={mad,ffmpeg,gst}.

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