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[Discuss] live streaming needs flash?
- Subject: [Discuss] live streaming needs flash?
- From: darose at darose.net (David Rosenstrauch)
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:35:50 -0400
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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. HTH, DR On 07/27/2015 07:23 PM, Shirley M?rquez D?lcey wrote: > Although there has been a camera API in HTML5 since at least 2012, > browser support has lagged; even now, developers can't count on it > being available, and what support does exist is inconsistent. Flash is > the most widely installed plugin so that is what developers used. It > can also be done with Java or Silverlight but fewer users have those. > > 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. >> >> Eric Chadbourne >> - The one who uses no flash or java plugins, ever. >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss at blu.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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