[Foundation-l] flowplayer?

[Oldak Quill]

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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.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)
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