swfdec and youtube (was: Skype core dumps as normal user)

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:11:23 +0100
Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie at le-hen.org> wrote:

> Hi Gary,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:13:13AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie at le-hen.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Last time I've tried gnash, it didn't work very well (understand: it
> > > didn't play Youtube).  I don't know swfdec, I will try it.  Does it play
> > > videos?
> > > 
> > 
> > swfdec definitely works for YouTube.  Other sites, like spiegel.de,
> > do not work.
> 
> I've just tried swfdec with YouTube.  I can hear the video, but the
> screen stays black.  Did you experience a similar problem?
> 

No.  I get both audio and video with YouTube.  It's one  of the few
sites which works 100% for me using swfdec (with firefox and 64-bit).
And the audio and video are in sync, which was hardly ever the case
when I was using the linux-flashplugin-7 port.

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Gary Jennejohn