On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Luke Faraone <l...@faraone.cc> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:36 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org> > wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Gross <daniel.gr...@utoronto.ca> >> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > >> > >> > I tried running youtube on the OLPC. The browser showed to click here to >> > run >> > flash, but flash never ran. Did anyone manage to run youtube in the >> > browser? >> > Is there a flash puggin needed? If so, does it exist? > > Gnash, which OLPC uses by default, is terrible in that version of the OS. > Even if you installed the official Flash plugin from Adobe, it is too much > overhead for the XO to handle. The best Youtube support I have seen on the > XO is in debxo using totem plugins (written in C afaict and directly playing > the video file through RSS magic) > >> >> FWIW, >> >> I have not been able to get youtube on gnash working on ubuntu 8.10 >> but it works fine on 9.04. > > But Ubuntu as a rule doesn't work well on the XO :( > >> >> So, when sugar runs on ubuntu 9.04 we will be getting pretty close! > > I have not tried the latest version of Gnash in Jaunty, but if this is the > case it will be most welcome, and will greatly ease the deployment of Sugar > in schools. > Still no luck getting the standard 9.04 Sugar packages to install and run on Sugar. I could not do more testing of gnash in Sugar.
But, when viewing youtube videos in gnash/firefox viewer on gnome both CPUs maxed out on my dual core 1.6GHz laptop:( david _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel