On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Carlos Nazareno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys! I'm a volunteer for OLPC Philippines and I'm very new here. > > Our project, OLPC XO as a Flash gaming/educational gaming platform > (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Flash_Gamedev) got approved and we > just received 3 XO units Monday last week for testing and development. > > Anyway: > > 1) I recommend Flash 10 RC over Flash 9 because: > - Flash 10 final should be coming out in a couple of months or so. > Adobe just announced the launch of the CS4 product line Tue. last week > (including Flash CS4). I guess that means they'll be shipping within 2 > months or so, so expect Flash player 10 to be finalized by then. > - Flash 9 has no V4L2 hardware support. The XO comes with a V4L2 webcam. > Flash apps that use the webcam show nothing in Flash 9 (cam LED will > light up, but only a black box appears in Flash). In Flash 10, it > shows red & green static but the static reacts if you wave your hand > in front of the camera. I reported the cam behavior to Adobe, and > they're looking into it. > (tested in update.1 711 -> will test in 766 if cam behavior improves). > > Anyway, my point is, we should really make Flash 10 our baseline > rather than Flash 9, because it'll be coming out of RC soon. > > Btw, youtube played in Flash 9.0.124.0, but maybe that was because I > was using Opera 9.52 in 711... > > 2) Gnash behavior: testing the pre-bundled Gnash 8.3 in the Sept.19 > Livecd build > (ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_080919.iso) > emulated in Virtualbox showed a lot of sound glitches with Flash 7 & 8 > apps, and no sound at all in Youtube. I'm downloading RC 766 now, and > will install it in one of the XOs in a while and report back. > Currently, I only have update.1 711 stable installed in the XO units.
A month or two ago on joyride I had gnash playing youtube videos with perfect sound, but very slow (.5ish FPS) video. For sound (and maybe video) you probably have to install the ffmpeg-gstreamer, and gstreamer-plugins-bad (and maybe gstreamer-plugins-dirty), all from the Livna repositories. The problem is that we've reverted to using an older version of gstreamer to get correct record behavior, and the livna gstreamer-plugins want the newer gstreamer. bobby > Regarding Flash performance: > > I noticed that Flash runs faster in Opera 9.52 (latest desktop linux > version of Opera runs fine on the XO) than in the Browse activivity > that comes with 711. I think this is primarily caused by the fact that > browser contents in the Browse activity are scaled up, and thus, it's > taxing Flash's engine more. > > In general, the bigger the dimensions of the Flash applet, the more > CPU horsepower it eats. Thus, using the same applet, if you zoom in on > a page with Flash in Opera, you'll see performance drop and if you > zoom out a page and thus shrink the flash applet size, you'll see > performance improve. > > Oh, I heard from Ben Schwartz that the Browse activity in 8.2.0 is > based on Firefox 3. If so, that would be interesting because my > general experience is that the Flash plugin performs better in Firefox > 3 than in MS IE or Opera 9.x. > > Anyway, am installing 766 and will report back on Flash/Gnash test results. > > -Naz > > -- > Carlos Nazareno > http://www.object404.com > > interactive media specialist > zen graffiti studios > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel