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Re: mov?
by Lee on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @15:51

Please do not speak solely from your own experience when advocating decisions that affect many people. There isn't even such a thing as a functional Linux flash player. There's a binary plugin which happens to run on a few kinds of linux, and some open source attempts which barely run. MPEG4, DivX, some kinds of MOV, some kinds of AVI, Ogg Theora, a simple slideshow... all would be more portable.

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Re: mov?
by Jeff Strehlow on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @19:01

I don't agree. I've tried Adobe flashplayer on several Linux distributions and it worked fine on every one of them. The only problem I've had was with a 64-bit install. Even with that I've got it working with a plugin (I believe it called nspluginwrapper in Debian) which makes 32-bit flashplayer work with 64-bit firefox.

And about a year ago I tried gnash and gave up on it because it wasn't stable enough. But I've recently tried the newest version and it's getting pretty decent; I'm using that now instead of flashplayer.

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Re: mov?
by fhd on Thursday 08/May/2008, @03:16

Okay, so you made it run on ONE architecture. Not even on an architecture that is really very similar to x86 -> x86_64

And you still call it portable? Please look up the word.

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Re: mov?
by Jeff Strehlow on Thursday 08/May/2008, @08:49

You're putting words in my mouth. The only thing I said was that there are 2 flash players to choose from in Linux.

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Re: mov?
by AC on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @01:24

Please do not speak solely from your own experience when advocating decisions that affect many people. An Ogg Theora video wouldn't play out of the box on Windows and OSX machines.

SCNR

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Re: mov?
by Kevin Kofler on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @17:59

You only have to install a plugin:
http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ (DirectShow/WMP)
http://xiph.org/quicktime/ (QuickTime)
so it isn't any harder to get to work than Flash on those broken OSes. And good OSes support Theora out of the box. :-)

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Re: mov?
by Greg on Friday 09/May/2008, @11:15

A mov file won't play out of the box on Windows either..

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