#9500 HIGH Not Tri: YouTube should just work.

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#9500: YouTube should just work.
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 Reporter:  sj            |                 Owner:  edmcnierney  
     Type:  defect        |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  high          |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
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 YouTube is one of the most popular sources of learning material in the
 world.  It is massively localized.  It needs to work out of the box.

 After discussion with CJB, here are a few things we can do to make this
 happen.

  1) get YouTube to produce an openvideo portal like
 openvideo.dailymotion.com, which all XOs (1 and 1.5 alike) can view. This
 means advocating with YouTube leads and through our board-level contacts.
 They wouldn't have to switch over their entire library; but the most
 popular 1% of videos and 100% of   education videos would be a fine start.

  2) find a way to get codec rights for mpeg.  This is a much broader and
 superior solution to 1) for the 1.5 XOs, since it would let us use the
 hardware decoding on the via chip (faster, lower power) and would work for
 sites other than YouTube.  This means talking to Quanta, Via, and perhaps
 MPEG LA.

  3) if none of the above works, find a way to ship Adobe Flash with
 associated codec rights.  this is a far inferior solution, but Adobe has
 already indicated a willingness to help make this happen.

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