Re: [gNewSense-users] Playing Youtube videos from Totem .

[Sam Geeraerts]

Jason Self schreef:
> > Why it couldn't be Gnash?
>
> The primary reason not to support Flash is that Flash is not a
> standard. It is not recognized by any standards body, there is only
> one complete implementation (IETF's RFC 2026 Section 4.1.2 requires
> "at least two independent and interoperable implementations from
> different code bases" to be considered even a "Draft Standard"), the
> source code for that lone implementation is not freely-available, and
> the complete specification for making a compatible Flash player is not
> available.

That's a good point, but "recognized by a standards body" doesn't always 
hold much value (e.g. OOXML). Are Ogg, Vorbis and Theora recognized by a 
standards body?

> > FLV/F4V specs have no restrictions on implementation anymore.
[No need to repeat it here again]

That's a nice summary of the issues. I rechecked Wikipedia about it and 
most of what you say is on there, but it's spread around across 
articles. I haven't found any other website that lists these issues 
clearly. If you or anyone else wants to write a WhyNotFlash page on our 
wiki, that would be very useful.