Loudmouthman

What application launches when you watch a movie on your desktop ? Is it Windows Media Player ?, iTunes (Quicktime ) ? or VLC ? All great applications for the desktop platform but what about the Internet ?

Adobe in an recent announcement have updated the Flashmedia player and in doing so they have sent a clear message to their competitors the Interntnet is their platform and they are the default media player for it.

The new release of the public beta version of Flash Player 9 , codenamed MovieStar will see support for H.264 and HE-AAC and will be available for download from Adobe labs. There is a far more technical review and discussion available here but the short answer to the long document is that Adobe are ensuring you can provide an m4a format ( podcasting to the less technically discerning ) file on a webpage and stream it via Adobes flash player. Want to upload video and have it directly delivered via Flash, you got it.

The Internet has is Media player and its name is Flash, cue obvious Queen link.

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When i get into conversation about the popularity of Linux and Open source it always returns to the predominance of Windows on the desktop. However when I point out that the desktop war is no longer relevant I get the askance looks of horror and embarrassment from people who wonder what the heck I am going on about .

Now I see that at this weeks GUADEC it appears that more people of clue have gathered together and are discussing the idea of a online desktop.  Ive been spending the last few weeks wondering if it would be rude of me to suggest to Mr Shuttleworth that Bug #1 might not need to be fixed since it may be made irrelevant by way of the internet.  It seems to me that Microsofts own operating system which is very much suited for life on stand alone or gaming PCs will not be able to handle the intricacies of running in such a open and distributed fashion. Whereas the open source development model already established in the open and online world of sharing and securing ideas and information will have no problems in adapting.

Apple wont be left behind in this either since they have modeled there own operating system architectures after more robust network environments and I would imagine they would bring a certain amount of “bling” to the environment when they do.

I look forward to see how this proceeds but I for one welcome my FaceBook openID Gnome login with access to all my online and personal media to be shared with whomever I am working with at that moment.

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