Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop

[Rob Savoye]

Walter Bender wrote:

> Unfortunately, when I tried to see Dailymotion's website
> http://www.dailymotion.com, the videos didn't work.

   Sigh, I am getting so tired of this issue with codecs... Gnash for 
the XO is built without support for any proprietary audio or video 
codecs. Because of the patent laws, the OLPC project (which is based in 
the US) cannot redistribute these codecs. So, although Gnash supports 
dailymotion just fine, it'll never work on the XO unless it's built with 
support for these codecs, namely FLV, ON2, and MP3.

   I'm on vacation this week, but I'm very strongly considering finding 
a safe host far away where I can stick a Gnash build for the XO that 
fully works, as that's probably the easiest fix. I sure wish Gnash could 
be distributed to support these codecs, but changing US patent laws 
seems a huge project.

	- rob -