Flash videos in Fedora 9 via swfdec or proprietary plugin?

[Valent Turkovic]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 15:06 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I just got back from testing a bit rawhide and new Firefox 3 works great 
>> and one thing I noticed is that there is a flash plugin in rawhide. I 
>> didn't know about swfdec project [1] before only about gnash [2].
>> I tested a bunch of flash video sites and I only got flash based ads to 
>> play. Every video I tried it failed - file plays but only audio. Is this 
>> an isolated bug I came across or swfdec is just too early in development 
>> to be able to play videos?
>>
>> Will there be an easy way of installing flash proprietary plugin (as 
>> much as we hate it all) if swfdec has no ability to play flash videos? 
>> Because users expect that things JustWork, especially their precious 
>> youtube :)
> 
> You're missing the FLV demuxer and FLV decoders, which are present in
> gstreamer-ffmpeg (which you can find on Livna, in their development
> repository for example).
> 
> There's a feature request about adding missing-plugins support to
> swfdec, see:
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14040
> 
> Cheers
> 

So there is really going to be proprietary free flash in fedora? Whoow, 
great news!

Valent