Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? [LWN.net]

Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Posted Feb 19, 2008 20:35 UTC (Tue) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888)
In reply to: Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? by rsidd
Parent article: Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

> the number of Linux users who care so much about free software that they will not use the
> NVidia driver must be quite microscopic. (I suppose those are the same users that won't use
> Adobe's flash player, or Adobe Reader -- which is still the only real option for filling
> forms.  Personally I don't know any such people, though I'm sure they exist.)  

Well, you may not personally know me, but I avoid NVidia hardware so that I don't have to care
about their proprietary driver.  (An ATI 9250, with a free driver based on specs they released
before they went closed, gives me a perfectly adequate 30 fps in FlightGear FlightSim.)

I don't use Adobe Reader either, there are fine free PDF readers out there, and I have no need
for filling out PDF forms.

I'll admit to using Adobe's flash player -- but note a key difference between using Adobe's
no-charge downloadable software vs NVidia's you-pay-for-it-by-buying-the-card software.  When
Gnash works as a Firefox plugin for YouTube videos, I'll switch.

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Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Posted Feb 20, 2008 1:37 UTC (Wed) by BeS (subscriber, #43108) [Link]

>When Gnash works as a Firefox plugin for YouTube videos, I'll switch.

Good news for you: Gnash works as a Firefox plugin for YouTube since version 0.8

Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Posted Feb 20, 2008 7:05 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link]

Cool. I think I last looked at it at 0.7.1.  I'll give the latest a try.

Thanks.

Gnash and YouTube

Posted Feb 20, 2008 22:27 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

For values of "works" that include non-working, randomly positioned play/stop buttons, 100%
CPU usage, bad network buffering.

I used to use Gnash but if it's installed when I load my 80+ entry Comics tab, Gnash tries to
play *every* flash animation loaded even if it isn't visible on the page or on the tab.  At
100% CPU *per animation* load climbs to 20+ before it falls over from memory exhaustion.

Gnash and YouTube

Posted Mar 1, 2008 1:19 UTC (Sat) by zenaan (guest, #3778) [Link]

So did you submit the URL to the Gnash guys, so they could debug the problem?