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Re: [LUG] http://xkcd.com/

 

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:53:03PM +0100, Michael Mortimore wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:07:40 +0100, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> >>> If mplayer and vlc and games can play full screen smoothly, then surely
> >>> it's a bug in flash player...
> >>>
> > No its a bug in the proprietary development method. The whole point of
> > proprietary is to limit so it ends up being limited. If it aint FLOSS it
> > don't get fixed. See later
> I don't see how you can blame proprietary development for jittery video.  
> All you can say is that Adobe don't seem to be applying enough resources  
> and the closed source model prevents anyone else from helping. This makes  
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> me wonder how gnash is getting on. *install*

That’s how. If it wasn’t proprietary, it’d be fixed by now (given the
amount of progress that gnash etc. have made *without* help from Adobe).

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