2006/3/28, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto <casimiro.barreto(a)gmail.com>:
Rudolf Kastl escreveu:
(...)
Supporting Flash seems to soak up most of the problem that can be
solved,
eg, youtube, Google Video, and if you have 32-bit firefox you
can have it.
Seems the only answer for Quicktime and such is the
corporate
mantrap that
is Mplayer, it makes no sense for Redhat to
invite attack on
their cash by
playing that game. There is no limit to
the number of dangerous
proprietary
formats that one could address by
that logic.
flash isnt a standard... how about creating a new better technology
and
obsolete it? flash requires mp3 for sound playback... so even if a
gpl
implementation exists it wont be going into extras... id just
forget about
flash and look "forward". personally i wont run a 32 bit
browser on my 64
bit system just to get the closed source garbage
working. only
real use case
for flash would be watching some funny
movies... as far as
regular webpages
go... i am not a flash fan at
all, but thats just me...
Yeah... but the thousand flies that like SoundClick, PureVolume,
15megsoffame, etc... etc... etc... not to mention the Internet radios and
other multimedia sites fell like compelled to use M$ or Apple OS X ???
*not optional* in 2006, any more than the ability to read Microsoft
Word
files in a word processor is optional; if we try to treat them
that way,
consumers will blow Linux off. Evangelizing for SVG and O
gg
Consumers mostly just dont know that they are using worse
legacy
formats like mp3 when they have superior formats such
as
ogg
available... i think thats a plain educational problem.
Just as OS2 was superior of NT4.0... Hey... that's nonsense... most portable
players just play MP3, WMA, WMV, MPG and AVI. The others are rare, expensive
and have exotic interfaces... Not to talk about the digital sound systems
that we have at home, at our cars, etc... Try to play OGG/Theora in your DVD
player at home... Try to play OGG/Theora on your PS2... That's not
educational problem that's practical problem...
Or just as amiga was better than atari st... or was it atari st that
was better than amiga? ;)) (throwing a small flame bait j/k).
The practical solution is to demand proper devices with proper support
for the best available means to encode/decode sound and video. Get
linux on your ps/2 btw... problem solved.
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