Re: [Gnash] Re: [Gnash-dev] Fwd: [backstage] BBC Trust won't probe iPlayer open source gripes

[Cory Fields]

>  In our branch or your's ? :-) Since most people here aren't on the
> -dev list, I've been working on hardware acceleration for video
> decoding. For low-end netbooks this helps alot, not so much on a dual or
> quad core desktop unless you do fullscreen. But as Gnash is popular on
> this class of lower end netbooks and phones. Pretty soon I'll be
> migrating the branch to trunk, then snapshots will show up regularly on
> our getgnash.org site.
>
>        - rob -

Your branch. Though as I'm hitting compilation errors and am
completely lost in your codebase, I'll wait for a post-merge trunk
tarball.

> Sadly this is not just RTMP, its Adobe's 'SWF Verification' which
> brings in the usual DMCA fun.
>
> "XBMC could easily be modified in a way that would allow playback of
> the streams, though it could never be included in the official
> binaries due to the wretched DMCA."
> - http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/02/25/xbmc-and-the-bbc/

Yep, there's the rub. Rob, have you given much thought to the SWFAuth issue?

Cory