Ping Kevin Kofler

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Tuesday 20 April 2010 12:15:31 Thomas Janssen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> 
wrote:
> > On Monday 19 April 2010 19:23:46 Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> On Monday 19 April 2010 18:19:50 Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> > Since you recommend using gnash I decided to try it again - it's a
> >> > long time since I tried it before.  Can you play the video on
> >> > http://brunoabinader.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-kid-on-block-plasma-wate
> >> > r- animation.html ?  I installed gnash* and it pulled in two more
> >> > packages as dependencies, but trying to play this brought a message
> >> > about needing another plugin.  When I allowed it to search I lost the
> >> > message, thought I'm fairly sure it had gstreamer in the name.
> >> 
> >> Managed to get the message back:
> >> 
> >> /usr/libexec/gst-install-plugins-helper gstreamer|0.10||On2 VP6/Flash
> >> decoder| decoder-video/x-vp6-flash requires an additional plugin to
> >> encode this file
> >> 
> >> The following plugin is required:
> >> On2 VP6/Flash decoder
> > 
> > You need GStreamer VP6 decoder plugin. These plugins are located in
> > RPMFusion repository, gstreamer-ffmpeg should help you.
> 
> Interesting. To have gnash close to as functional as the flash-plugin,
> you need plugins from rpmfusion. Anne, how is the CPU consum with
> gnash? The same or close to flash-plugin? If not, where's the
> advantage of gnash over flash-plugin?

Gnash uses GStreamer... I think this is quite a big advantage over original 
Flash plugin. If GStreamer can use accelerated drivers, then Gnash can too. 
And probably everything is faster than original Flash :D Other advantage - and 
for Kevin - the top one - it's open source implementation!

Jaroslav 
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