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["Ali Linx (amjjawad)" <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Leszek,


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx> wrote:

>
> > THIS IS NOT GOOD :(
> >
> > We need to solve this issue ASAP before we carry on with our Start Ubuntu
> > campaign.
>
> How are we suppose to do this ?


NO idea :D


The Adobe Flashplayer is proprietary software.
> (and is simply talking crappy software)
>

It seems only with Linux, it has these issues :(



> Alternatives like gnash or lightspark exists already. They support
> graphic shardware way better than the Adobe Flashplayer however they don't
> support video flashsites too good (they were never really meant for this)
>

browser-plugin-lightspark

browser-plugin-gnash

I tried to check these and it has tons of dependencies :( even more than
what VLC has.


> Say, have anyone tried to play that on Windows XP? I have no XP installed
> > on any of my machines. Is there someone with the same machine or close to
> > it can play the same video on XP and see what happens?
> >
> > It would be really bad if XP will work better :(
>
> It will work better as Windows XP is supported way better by Adobe.
>

That what I expected and was afraid of. This is bad/sad news :(



> Also notice that the Adobe Flash Player does not support non SSE2 capable
> CPUs
> under Linux  which the Adobe Flashplayer for Windows does. So basically a
> old
> computer with a non SSE2 capable CPU will run way better with Windows XP
> when
> it comes to Flash content.
>

Again, bad/sad news :(

http://phillw.net/hardware/BnA9pw11
It does not show whether I have SSE2 or not.

I need to check again on that machine, I'm on my Laptop right now.



> Sadly we can't really do anything about it.
> As the flashplayer was abondend for mobile plattforms and linux I also
> really
> don't see any future for it currently.
>

:(


What we could do is advice users to use either VLC (for youtube videos that
> aren't available as html5 video) or other alternatives (minitube, ...) .
> That
> will cover a lot of online video use cases but sadly not all.


Which is not good enough and sad enough.

Sigh!


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