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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: YouTube
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:58:01
Message-Id: loom.20080903T175137-615@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] YouTube "HD" unusable with Flash 10? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> arcor.de> writes:
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4 > I'm using Flash 10_beta20080811. All high-resolution content on YouTube
5 > gives a "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." error. Can
6 > someone confirm? Here's a high-res video:
7 >
8 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZd3WU5l38&fmt=18
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11 Confirmed:
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13 Installed versions: 10_beta20080811!m(02:12:45 08/28/08)
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15 with seamonkey Installed versions: 1.1.11(17:45:15 08/09/08)
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18 It seems that all videos related to vendor offerings and H.264
19 are problematic, to some extent, sporadically. Not due to the
20 wonderful (mathematically rigorous) nature of h.264 but the old
21 habits of vendors..... I suspect.
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23 Maybe the issue if being discussed by the devs over at ffmpeg or
24 such technically astute groups of video hacks......
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27 imho,
28 James