[Olpc-open] XO laptops and video

[Clare Richardson]

I agree that it's important for kids to be able to do all they want to do on the laptop! :) YouTube is quickly becoming not just for fun, but a classroom tool as well.

It's my understanding that while the XO laptop does not ship with the Adobe Flash plugin (which is required for playing YouTube videos) because it is proprietary software, you should be able to install it yourself:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Flash_Player
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash#Installation

I confess I've never tried it on ours though!

Clare Richardson
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-----Original Message-----
From: olpc-open-bounces at lists.laptop.org [mailto:olpc-open-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of John Kintree
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:24 AM
To: olpc-open at lists.laptop.org
Subject: [Olpc-open] XO laptops and video

My eleven year old daughter uses her XO laptop very rarely
here in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.  This is largely due to the
inability to view youtube videos and lack of support for other
Internet-based applications that require Flash.

The XO hardware is capable of displaying youtube videos.
Evidence of that can be seen in this youtube video showing
an XO with Ubuntu Linux that is doing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJhWcWOQNaE

For many recipients of XO laptops, the lack of software support
to display youtube videos is a non-issue because they do not
have the Internet access that is also necessary.  Major
resources still need to be developed to provide Internet access
with sufficient bandwidth to support video for every child.
Regards,
John Kintree
4043 Delor Street
St. Louis, MO  63116
314-351-7454
http://home.swbell.net/jkintree/islt/

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