Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop

[Walter Bender]

Ben is right on target. Rather than going "off shore" to support proprietary
codecs, we should be advocating the use of FOSS codecs.

-walter

On Jan 8, 2008 10:06 PM, Rob Savoye <rob at welcomehome.org> wrote:

> Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
>
> > There might be some way to embed Theora in Flash in a way that Gnash can
> play,
> > but this will never work in Adobe Flash.  I strongly advise that, for
> OLPC, you
> > avoid Flash altogether.
>
>   Gnash can already handle both Ogg and Theora as external files just
> fine. We're also modifying Ming to be able to generate swf files with
> Ogg and Theora as embedded data. This requires extending the swf spec in
> a way that still says compatible for FLV, ON2, and MP3.
>
>   To go along with this, I've been working on a clone of the Adobe
> Media  Server, so we can steam free codecs. Right now you can only do
> this with icecast, but it doesn't speak the flash protocols, which Gnash
> now supports.
>
>        - rob -
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