Supported Features

[Brainonska511]

http://xkcd.com/619/

Sometimes, I feel this was so true when I was toying with Ubuntu -

random stuff added in each new edition, but still problems with widely used stuff on the internet, like Flash (though, that is a 3rd party program) or ATI graphics cards + Compiz + choppy video playback (from things like DVDs).

 

[Fox5]

The choppy video playback I think is fixed with the latest ati drivers. Besides that, I think it could be fixed by changing the renderer in the video player.

As for flash, for things like youtube, I wonder if the open source flash players may be faster. Of course, they barely support any flash animations so it's hard to benchmark.

 

[Nothinman]

I have no problems with any kind of videos in mplayer. Flash sucks, but that's been the case forever and I doubt Adobe will ever fix it.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I have no problems with any kind of videos in mplayer. Flash sucks, but that's been the case forever and I doubt Adobe will ever fix it.

Support Gnash.

Not that it fixes flash, it just takes some of Adobe's crappiness out of the picture (unfortunately not all of it). 😛

 

[Brazen]

I just use whatever flash player Ubuntu installs when you install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package. I think it's gnash, and I have not had any flash video problems in Jaunty ( but I did pre-Jaunty). I think I have an ATI graphics card, if that makes a difference.

 

[Nothinman]

Support Gnash.

I should try it, but last I heard it pretty much worked just with youtube.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Support Gnash.

I should try it, but last I heard it pretty much worked just with youtube.

The version OpenBSD has in ports is kind of bad. I try it every once in a while. Kind of works on some files, but fails miserably on most. 😛

That's why I said support it, and not use it. 😉

 

[Nothinman]

Looks like 0.8.5-1+b1 is in sid, is that the same version you tried?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Looks like 0.8.5-1+b1 is in sid, is that the same version you tried?

0.8.3 is what's in OpenBSD.

 

[Sheninat0r]

That XKCD is distressingly accurate; anyone who remembers Amarok 1.4 knows how badly they fxcked up 2.0, because the devs just knew what was better for their users. Rather than listening to mountains of complaints about the playlist view (it doesn't even support columns!), context view, and the troublesome MySQL dependency, they just went along and made the best music player I've ever used into one rivaling iTunes.

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: Sheninat0r
That XKCD is distressingly accurate; anyone who remembers Amarok 1.4 knows how badly they fxcked up 2.0, because the devs just knew what was better for their users. Rather than listening to mountains of complaints about the playlist view (it doesn't even support columns!), context view, and the troublesome MySQL dependency, they just went along and made the best music player I've ever used into one rivaling iTunes.

You are free to fork it, if you'd like... that's the beauty of open source.
If you care enough to fix it, you can.

 

[Nothinman]

You are free to fork it, if you'd like... that's the beauty of open source.
If you care enough to fix it, you can.

Or just keep the old version installed via source or something, but that can be a PITA too.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Sheninat0r
That XKCD is distressingly accurate; anyone who remembers Amarok 1.4 knows how badly they fxcked up 2.0, because the devs just knew what was better for their users. Rather than listening to mountains of complaints about the playlist view (it doesn't even support columns!), context view, and the troublesome MySQL dependency, they just went along and made the best music player I've ever used into one rivaling iTunes.

When you write the software, you get to decide how it works. 🙂