[Discuss] live streaming needs flash?

[Eric Chadbourne]

Please correct me if I am wrong.  I believe there may be a difference between streaming a video and streaming live video.  This is what I have heard others say and that only flash does it really well.  Is this true?

Eric Chadbourne
Nonprofit-CRM.org

> On Jul 27, 2015, at 9:09 PM, F. O. Ozbek <ozbek at gmx.com> wrote:
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> On 7/27/15 8:35 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> Netflix now can do streaming on Linux without Flash.  (Though it doesn't
>> look like all streaming services work this way currently.)
>> 
>> It looks like Netflix uses the NSS (Network Security Services) libraries
>> to do this.  (See
>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2824623/ubuntu-linux-gets-netflix-without-weird-workarounds.html
>> for more details)  I can confirm firsthand that this works on my distro
>> (Arch).  But it only works in Google Chrome, not the fully open source
>> Chromium.
> 
> just another data point:
> Using Ubuntu 15.04 and google-chrome to watch Netflix.
> Works better than OSX + silverlight on the same Mac mini hardware.
> 
> -- F. Ozbek
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