Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 19:34 -0700, Rob Savoye wrote:
> 
>    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.

Does Gnash not use gstreamer and hence work with the extra codec plugins
which are already available in livna?

Having to _build_ it with the problematic support would seem to be a
poor design decision.

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dwmw2