On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Sikosis <sikosis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Indeed it would be nice - however I don't think there is much we can do. > The FakeFlash plugin using VLC doesn't work. I know all the vids I've made > are mp4, so we could host those on haiku-files.org - of course they'll be > bigger files. > > On another thought, has anyone from Haiku officially contacted Adobe about > getting Flash support. Linux has support for flash ... Is it open sourced ? > Anything we can reverse engineer ? As far as I know it's not open sourced (althought it should darn well be). I have no idea what Adobe's intentions are but I do think that contacting them is a good idea. > > > More and more sites are using flash - I'd hate to see Haiku become a 2nd > class citizen on the web. Flash is so widely used these days that it should be a requirement that we have some sort of solution in place. There is this, http://www.haikuware.com/bounties/flash-port-bounty, bounty in place at Haikuware to port Gnash or swfdec to Haiku. There`s no takers yet but hopefully someone will pick it up eventually. > > > Cheers > > Sikosis > > > On 26/08/2008, at 8:28 AM, "Gavin James" <gavin.james@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> 2008/8/20 Sikosis <sikosis@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> >>>> I'll have a look at this today. Maybe setup a Haiku YouTube channel for >>>> people to add things - also I think we should use flickr and get ppl to >>>> tag >>>> their photos with say haikuos and then display those photos on our site. >>>> >>> >>> I would actually recommend Picasa at this point simply because we're >>> already maintaining a set of galleries there, and Remi was working on >>> a way to embed the gallery into Drupal :) >>> >> >> It might also be an idea to look at alternatives to flash-based video >> hosting... what with Haiku lacking a supported Flash player. ;) >> >> haiku-files.org has an almost obscene amount of bandwidth available so >> that might be a possible solution. In that case it would also probably >> be worth standardising on single multimedia codec and file format well >> supported under Haiku. >> >> - Gavin >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Haiku Web & Developer Support Discussion List >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Haiku Web & Developer Support Discussion List > > -- Dennis d'Entremont IT Professional CNA, MCP, A+, ITIL LinkedIn Profile - http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennisdentremont http://www.techalpha.net - Tech Alpha Computer Forums http://epcsolutions.ca - EasyPC Solutions http://eComStation.ca - Your Canadian Source for eCS and OS/2 Software! http://Haikuware.com - Software for Haiku http://Haiku-OS.org - Haiku Operating System