[Foundation-l] flowplayer?

Sun Mar 9 19:37:28 UTC 2008

Also note that video in FLV uses proprietary and patented H263 and
H264 codecs, which aren't free either.

-- Hay / Husky

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On 09/03/2008, Dan Rosenthal  wrote:
>  > OK, so I know there was a big to-do about Kaltura, Flash, and various
>  >  open source issues, but I really don't understand it, nor do I know
>  >  what the concerns are. I just found this in my RSS feed.
>  >
>  >  "FlowPlayer is a Flash media player. You can use it on your HTML pages
>  >  to play video files. "It is your personal YouTube". It is highly
>  >  customizable which upports all the features you'll possibly need and
>  >  these features can be configured the way you like. Look and feel is
>  >  important to us. FlowPlayer's skin is flexible and will smoothly melt
>  >  into your site. Progressive downloading, solid streming, long play
>  >  features, playlists, fullscreen mode and etc… Everything you'll need
>  >  to provide rich user experience. Flowplayer is licenced under the GPL
>  >  license so it's free too.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Requirements: Flash 9
>  >  Demo: http://flowplayer.org/
>  >  License: GPL License"
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Is this helpful to us at all?
>
>  Flash has a proprietary license and is not an open standard. The FLV
>  file format is also proprietary and not documented. Wikimedia content
>  will not be free if it is held in non-free/open formats or uses
>  non-free/open standards.
>
>  SVG and SMIL are possible alternatives (in the future) to Flash and
>  are open, standardised and fully documented.
>
>  - --
>  Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)
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