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[Discuss] live streaming needs flash?
- Subject: [Discuss] live streaming needs flash?
- From: bill.n1vux at gmail.com (Bill Ricker)
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:22:40 -0400
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com > wrote: > I've heard some smart folks say flash is needed for live streaming and > nothing else is nearly as good. I've heard them say there is no good open > source option. If this is true, why? Surely there's no magic sauce in > there that couldn't be replicated, or even done better. Is it more of a > matter of plugin saturation? Just curious. ?There are FLOSS Flash replacements, but they're iffy, may or may not work with a given site. I suspect the reason for requiring Flash for streaming is to make downloading-via-stream ? violation harder.? Supposedly they'll support HTML5 in the brave new world, but i suspeccit was HTML5 in my flash-free Cromium that was crashing the GPU/video-driver on multimedia. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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