[OLPC-Philippines] getting mp3 sound working w/ Gnash easily

[Carlos Nazareno]

> Oh. So, just in case Coca-Cola Philippines doesn't exists and Pop Cola copied the recipe of Coke, the Coke
> USA can't sue Pop Cola because their patent is only good in US?!?

Well, all I know is that this is with regards to software in the
Philippine setting. At least that's my understanding when I attended a
forum on open software in UP with Attys. Bong Dizon JJ Disini
speaking. Idunnow if there are any lawyers in the list, and I'm not a
cyberlaw expert, but that was just my understanding of the talk.

This is not really my realm and I'm not the proper person to answer
these questions.

Anyway, I think we're allowed MP3 and DVD playback on Linux here in
the Philippines :P
I don't think there are Philippine laws that prevent us from doing so
like in the US. (DVD playback in Linux is a violation of the Digital
Millenium Copyright Act of the US because it uses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS)

Then again I'm not a lawyer nor a cyber-law expert at that (which you need) :P

> As Philippine sector/chapter of OLPC, maybe we could abide by this?

We use what works. By going exclusively with Gnash, we're going to
forego the speed which the AVM2 in Flash 9 & 10 provide. I did a
benchmark test that Rico Zuniga at Phlashers & I made using an flash 8
AS2 and a Flash 9 AS3 port of an app, and the Flash 9 AS3 version ran
at twice the framerate on the XO.

Ideally, our apps should be written to run in both Gnash and Flash,
but we can't really dictate that people just adhere to Gnash ONLY
because Adobe's Flash is the standard and there's the matter of the
situation I outlined above.

If people want to write Flash 9 & 10 apps for the XO, we shouldn't
exclude them, but instead give guidlines on best practices in
optimizing stuff to run on the XO.

Thus, we're forking the page at Flash_Gamedev at the OLPC wiki into 2
target platforms: Gnash and Adobe Flash 9/10.

-Naz

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