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[News] Adobe Treats Linux Like First-class Citizen with Flash, But Kills Freedom

  • Subject: [News] Adobe Treats Linux Like First-class Citizen with Flash, But Kills Freedom
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:22:39 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Adobe improves Flash video

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| The next version of Flash Player will support the H.264 video codec - 
| allowing much better quality footage, for less bandwidth. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/21/adobe_gets_mpeg4/

H dot two sixty four

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| There is a new beta of the Flash Player Update available. That's right: the 
| beta is even available for Linux (same time as Windows and Mac). Download it 
| here.  
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http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/08/h_dot_two_sixty_four.html

[theora] This is a sad day for interoperability in the Web

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| Today, Adobe Systems Incorporated announced[1] that they will extend
| their Flash platform to support the proprietary H.264 and HE-AAC
| formats.
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http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2007-August/001518.html

There's still hope.

Gnash runs on Syllable!

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| I finally managed to get Gnash (cvs download, though version 0.8 should work 
| fine) running on Syllable 0.6.4. Since my new machine isn't frying the 
| filesystem every 5 minutes, I was able to work for a little bit and get this 
| running. 
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http://www.syllable.org/discussion.php?id=2330

Syllable uses the Linux kernel. Google to add ads to YouTube videos, which
gnash/swfdec should handle fine (Flash 7).

YouTube videos to have 'overlay' ads

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| Starting Wednesday, the popular video-sharing site plans to feature 
| semitransparent "overlay" ads at the bottom of selected video clips. 
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_on_hi_te/youtube_advertising


Related:

Making Gnash: a well-deserved name?

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| Gnash is the Free Software Foundation’s alternative Adobe Flash player. 
| Version 0.8 is the third alpha release, and frankly, it rocks! It is 
| also one of the first projects to be covered by the GPLv3.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/making_gnash


Interview with Rob Savoye of Gnash, the GPL Flash project

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| 6. What features does the current version of Gnash support?
| 
| We support a large chunk of ActionScript2 classes, and Flash v7
| movies. There is some support for v8 starting to get added as it's
| not very difference from v7. Although streaming video currently works
| in CVS, it's not fully functional yet. I find that Gnash plays them
| ajority of web pages Flash ads (unfortunately), and many movies
| randomly grabbed from the net. Many of us are using Gnash as our
| only Flash player without much trouble.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=177


Flash Development Revolutionized with the Open-Source Release of Gaia Flash
Framework

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| The Gaia Flash Framework has already earned the praise of high-profile 
| coders including world-renowned Flash and Flex developer Jesse Warden. 
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070612/netu013.html?.v=16


Gnash [Open Source Flash] 0.8.0 release made

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| Gnash supports the majority of Flash opcodes up to SWF version 7, and
| a wide sampling of ActionScript classes for SWF version 8.5. All the
| core ones are implemented, and many of the newer ones work, but may be
| missing some of their methods.
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http://gnashdev.org/?q=node/35


Ryan, Open Source, and Flash

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| A few weeks back, I had dinner in Seattle with Ryan Stewart and Brian
| Zug. Over the course of several hours we covered a number of topics,
| including a crash course in open source software. Yesterday Ryan posted
| some of what he learned during our conversation, including his
| conclusions about whether or not open sourcing the Flash Player
| was a good idea.
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http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/04/12/ryan-open-source-and-flash/

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