[Lubuntu-qa] Video Problems - Saucy

[Leszek Lesner]

> THIS IS NOT GOOD :(
> 
> We need to solve this issue ASAP before we carry on with our Start Ubuntu
> campaign.

How are we suppose to do this ? The Adobe Flashplayer is proprietary software. 
(and is simply talking crappy software)
Alternatives like gnash or lightspark exists already. They support 
graphicshardware way better than the Adobe Flashplayer however they don't 
support video flashsites too good (they were never really meant for this) 

> Say, have anyone tried to play that on Windows XP? I have no XP installed
> on any of my machines. Is there someone with the same machine or close to
> it can play the same video on XP and see what happens?
> 
> It would be really bad if XP will work better :(

It will work better as Windows XP is supported way better by Adobe. 
Also notice that the Adobe Flash Player does not support non SSE2 capable CPUs 
under Linux  which the Adobe Flashplayer for Windows does. So basically a old 
computer with a non SSE2 capable CPU will run way better with Windows XP when 
it comes to Flash content. 
Sadly we can't really do anything about it. 
As the flashplayer was abondend for mobile plattforms and linux I also really 
don't see any future for it currently. 
What we could do is advice users to use either VLC (for youtube videos that 
aren't available as html5 video) or other alternatives (minitube, ...) . That 
will cover a lot of online video use cases but sadly not all.