On Jan 29, 2008 3:12 PM, Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 15:08 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
That clarifies a bit. So in other words this would not play youtube. Firefox would not suggest installing proprietary codecs as it would see flash plugin installed (firefox doesn't check if it actually plays video) and it will be happy with that.
IMHO this will lead to lot of users calling firefox and/or fedora broken as legal restrictions posed on fedora will make this flash playback feature broken by design if users expect or want something more that just flash adds which work without codecs.
While I agree that the situation wrt to flash video is a sad one, swfdec is not 'just for ads'. A lot of flash games work fine with it.
I haven't tested this so I can't confirm, but what games have you tested? I don't play flash games so I'm not the one to ask how many games on average work or don't work with swfdec but I can look at it if you know of some popular flash gaming urls. I know that I can google it but I'm not sure if the ones google finds are the one that people actually use the most...