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In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: |
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> <meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes: |
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>> got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and |
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>> may other parts. |
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> Well, I was "noodling" around the net about video (VP8) and there |
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> seems to be a war brewing. As you know, Google is has open sourced |
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> VP8 as a replacement for H.264. It seems that the web browser |
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> groups each pay millions of dollars per year to be able to give |
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> away a browser that supports h.264 streaming video. |
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> h.264 is everywhere, cell phone apps, HDTV, utube, just to |
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> name a few. Now Theora was based on an old codec (vp3) I believe. |
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> Google purchased the company that developed VP8 and purports |
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> it to replace h.264. |
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> Naturally MPLA (the stinking lawyers behind h.246) is upset |
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> because the financial rewards of the the patents behind h.264 |
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> are worth an enormous sum of money, over the next few decades. |
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> VP8 is not threating that. If you saw my post on Nokia and Microsoft |
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> going down the darkside together (very strange), what I did not |
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> say is that Balmer is pushing the bussword "EcoSystem" composed |
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> of Xbox-live, Office and Bing. |
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> Google has that and more. Apple has their own "EcoSystem". |
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> Many Browsers will be dropping support for h.264 in the near |
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> future, and streaming video, at least in the short run, |
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> is now fair game and going to be not interoperable. |
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> Is this your problem? Maybe, maybe not. Drop back a version |
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> and see if it fixes your problem. |
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> Better still, one of the young (smart) kids on this list |
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> prolly (guesses?) knows all about this. If it is not your |
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> problem now, it surely will be *REAL SOON*; as it will |
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> become everybody's problem as the Economic Giants scratch |
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> out and protect their "video EcoSystems". Stock prices |
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> are more of a concern to these titans, than piss_ants |
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> consumuers (that's what they ALL really see in us). So |
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> do not be fool, Google is as big a whore as the rest, imho. |
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> Google has well intentioned folks, but to quote an old addage |
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> "Money talks and Bullshit walks"....... |
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> hth, |
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> James |
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IME most video on the web can be viewed with mplayer, if you |
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can get a link to the actual file. I often download flv files |
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and use ffmpeg to reencode them as mp4. Works even for videos |
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that the linux flashplayer can't handle. |
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I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight |
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though, running win7 in vbox works but I shouldn't have to do all |
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that... |
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caveat utilitor |
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