On Mon 30 November 2009 1:12:57 pm Gregory Maxwell wrote:
The site requires flash.
… If anyone doing fedora marketing wants to put up videos that don't
require proprietary software to view, please feel free to drop me an
email. I'd be glad to help, or if I'm too busy I can connect you
with someone else willing and able to help.
The last time I checked (read: Last night), VLC could play youtube links when
passed the
http://youtube.com/watch url from the command line, and that gnash
played them in browser, both with the free-but-patent-encumbered codecs in
rpmfusion-free.
So, no, you don't need proprietary software to view youtube. I use VLC with
youtube links daily.
I too have had some bad experiences with blip.tv's upload service trying to
get ABLEconf videos online. Blip.tv may be more Freedom oriented, but when it
comes down to it, youtube+an ogv direct download accomplishes the same thing
with much less effort :(
Awesome videos, Máirín. Almost enough to inspire me to put my own ugly mug
onscreen ;-)
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