flash videos.

Uncle Koh unclekoh at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 15:12:48 UTC 2006


> And I don't know whether it is only .swf that is closed non standard and
> .flv is some standard video format, or both are propietary and flv support
> by free software is reverse engineering or otherwise hard work without
> much guarantee to be maintainable because of the aribtrarieness of the
> format...

I once asked RMS about this and he mentioned there is no danger to
using the Flash format, the same thing goes for PDF. The specification
of it is open. What he laments is the lack of a good flash player and
he discourages use of the Flash format till the day we have one.

UK



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