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In light of all these announcements, it's strange that Adobe decided

to drop support for the linux 64 bit flash player (

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html ).

Checking http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/ , now I find that i386 10.1.53.64

is the only Linux release .
It looks like alternative architectures and platforms are going to be

Flash's Achilles heel: especially w/ the diversity of platforms that

mobile solutions will bring. I hope the open source community exploits

this weakness and will rally to help kick Flash and Adobe to the curb.

Multiplatform support is exactly what the open-source community does

well (e.g. http://www.linaro.org/ ).
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash gives some more information on

the "hope" of WebM and the timeframe when said curb-kicking might

start:
> YouTube and WebM support

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>

> Google has recently open sourced VP8 video format and combined it

> with Ogg Vorbis audio and a adaptation of the Matroska container

> to create a new format for free and open video and audio called

> WebM. YouTube is switching over to using WebM extensively and

> Fedora has embraced this format as well. Fedora 13 and Fedora 12

> has updates to Gstreamer multimedia framework to enable users to

> play many YouTube videos directly without any use of Flash via

> browsers such as Epiphany and Midori which use Gstreamer. Fedora

> 12 users also need the webkitgtk update. Once you have the updates

> installed, to enable support for it in YouTube, go to

> http://youtube.com/html5 and click on "Join the HTML5 Beta" link

> in the bottom of that page. Note that all videos are not available

> in WebM format yet but this is expected to happen over time. Here

> ( http://www.permadi.com/blog/2010/05/sample-webm-video-2/ )

> is a sample video for testing. Fedora 14 will have more extensive

> support for WebM by default.

Actually, it appears this will be supported well before Fedora14. Recent updates

indicate gstreamer-plugins now support VP8: libvpx-0.9.0-5.fc12.x86_64

( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593879 "Review Request:

libvpx - VP8 Video Codec SDK").
http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2010/05/31/youtube-out-of-the-box/

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> With today’s GStreamer update, you are able to watch WebM

> videos. That means you can enjoy Youtube with a stock Fedora

> 13. You need the following ingredients:

>

> The updates-testing repository enabled until the update hits the

> stable repository.  A browser that uses GStreamer, such as

> Epiphany or Midori.  Opting in to the Youtube HTML5 beta.  A

> Youtube video that is already provided in WebM, such as this one (

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W0zjXh6gXE ) This update will also

> arrive in Fedora 12.

........
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#Installing_Gnash also points to

Gnash, which is unfortunately, hobbled by

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems :
> Free alternatives to Adobe Flash

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>

> There is a free and open source alternative called Gnash available

> in Fedora's package repositories. Gnash can play flash videos but

> the audio portion of Flash is often under the MP3 format which is

> patent encumbered. Since Gnash uses Gstreamer, you can get

> additional codecs from other third party repositories but Fedora

> unfortunately cannot include them. Scroll below for more details

> on installing Gnash. ...

...........

Niels

http://nielsmayer.com
PS: Is there a "codec dynamic loader" for http://lame.sourceforge.net

, such that applications can be compiled once, and then, at load time,

dynamically load and support MP3 if the lame-libraries are present?

Seems like such a "meta-lame" package would solve all sorts of

problems, such as having to provide both "free" and never-up-to-date

"nonfree" versions of most audio editing software,

e.g.:audacity.x86_64 1.3.11-0.1.beta.fc12  @updates  vs.

audacity-freeworld.x86_64 1.3.7-0.6.1.beta.fc11 rpmfusion-free.

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