F9 Test Request - swfdec

[Andrew Farris]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Chuck Anderson (cra at WPI.EDU) said: 
>>> I think that there are probably a lot more flash apps out there that
>>> swfdec *does* work with - just no one has taken the time to report
>>> them.
>> What's with considering proprietary codecs as failures (red)?  Most 
>> flash out there is going to need proprietary or patent-encumbered 
>> codecs.
> 
> Out of the box it fails; I don't see how that can be considered
> a successful test. Note that all of the ones I marked with red
> fail even *with* the codecs - they terminate early, abort, crash,
> etc. If it was just the codecs, I would have left it as yellow.

I feel the same way Chuck is going here.. I've seen swfdec fail on lots of sites 
(I didn't report them, sorry), but it does *partly* work out of the box on many 
others.  It works pretty well for me on most sites that are not video but just 
slides or navigation bar flash.

And... all that needs to be done is wget the adobe repo, and yum install 
flash-plugin, and the system is up and running with adobe flash while swfdec is 
installed.  I see no negative in providing something that partially works and 
pointing out in release notes that some flash support will require proprietary 
flash.  I've been using adobe flash installed with swfdec as well and there is 
no problem with that.

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