Ping Kevin Kofler

[Thomas Janssen]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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!

I agree, of course, and i know that, though, the only reason to change
to gnash, for me, would be if gnash and all it's needed plugins, uses
less resources than the flash-plugin. But to be honest, i don't have
the time yet to test it completely.

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LG Thomas

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