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On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:22:08PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:

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> On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 19:09 +0100, tim hall wrote:

> > .mpg is great for video. I agree that flash players for other media

> > suck.  However .mpg doesn't provide animated vector graphics with

> > scriptable interactivity, unless I've missed something.

>

> Yes but who really cares about Flash games?  YouTube is THE killer app

> of the web right now and Linux users are locked out.

I use a perl script called youtube-dl to grab video from youtube and

then watch them in Mplayer.  It is ugly, but on the upside, it doesn't

require flash player, which I feel has a heavy destablizing effect.

Plus, mplayer is better at supporting alsa or jack than flash player

is. 
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Joshua D. Boyd

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