[GTALUG] PanAm games online steaming -how?

Clifford Ilkay clifford_ilkay at dinamis.com
Sun Jul 19 22:30:10 UTC 2015


On 19/07/15 05:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote:
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> On 2015-07-19 15:50, Bob Jonkman wrote:
>> Ken Heard wrote:
>>> What we need now is an open source equivalent of the latest
>>> flashplayer
>> No, what we need is to educate the mass media outlets et. al. that
>> free software exists that does not require them to spend $$$ on
>> licenses for proprietary software that has been limiting their
>> advertising reach to yet more eyeballs.
>>
>> --Bob, who remains ever optimistic and naive.
> Do you mean that there is an open source equivalent to flashplayer
> which the CBC could have used?

They could use HTML5 video <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video>. 
I did a fresh install of Fedora 21 recently and didn't bother to install 
the Flash player so I have no Flash support in Firefox. I can watch 
YouTube videos perfectly well. Vimeo is also fine. Facebook video isn't 
and many web sites still cling to Flash. For those, the embedded Flash 
player in Chrome works fine.

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Regards,

Clifford Ilkay

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