Re: Proposal: swfdec-gnome

[Benjamin Gramlich <benjamin gramlich gmail com>]

Adobe is currently working on a framework that will allow programmers to
write and deploy applications to the desktop using only the languages of
the internet. [1] I think, therefore, that we are going to see more
demand for flash on the desktop in the near future. It also appears the
Adobe will NOT be releasing a version of this framework for the Linux
desktop. If we could get an open source alternative integrated into ( or
available for) Gnome, we'd be 2 steps ahead of the KDE folks. 

ciao,
benjamin g.

[1] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/


On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 10:29 +0000, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> Peter Gordon <peter <at> thecodergeek.com> writes:
> 
> > Unfortunately, swfdec's dependency on ffmpeg/libmad for multimedia
> > decoding means that it cannot intrinsically be part of some distributions
> > such as Fedora without being hosted in a third-party repository of some
> > sort; and the current Gstreamer stack in swfdec does not work nearly as
> > well as does ffpmeg/libmad. For one, YouTube videos (from my very brief
> > testing with 0.5.3) play without sound and often freeze the X session
> > entirely. :(
> > 
> > Would this mean that its Gstreamer support would be heavily improved
> > or perhaps even become the main playback focus for videos? That would be
> > *awesome*. :)
> >
> The current GStreamer has some serious issues with the way Swfdec wants to use
> it. I'll gladly go into details about why, but I guess this is the wrong place
> to discuss this. The solution the GStreamer guys did for this was
> appsrc/appsink, however there's no release yet which uses it, and it looks like
> the next release will not have it either.
> 
> So in short: Yes, we'd like to improve GStreamer decoding options, but it's just
> not possible.
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> 
> 
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