Olpc media player

Please use information here with caution, or update it. Flash-heavy Sites Note that media-rich and script-heavy Flash media can be very taxing on the CPU and may perform poorly. The XO only has a total storage of 1GB so be aware that successive use of these sites may quickly fill up your free storage. Also note that the Browse and Firefox activities zoom-in pages by default to improve readability.

Because of this, Flash applets are artificially scaled up above native resolution and the CPU is taxed even more because more pixels have to be rendered by Flash. Zooming out or using a browser that runs at native resolution like Opera will improve performance.

Additional performance increase at the sacrifice of visual quality may be gained by running Flash in low-quality mode. Note that a lot of Flash applets disable the right-click context menu. Flash 3D 3D in Flash is achieved via software rendering and is not hardware accelerated. Because of this, avoid visiting sites which make use of 3D in Flash.

Webcam Support Support for the XO's built-in camera seems to be problematic. In both the Browse Activity and Opera browser: Browsing Flash apps that use the webcam will turn on the indicator light above the webcam Flash 9 shows just a black screen Flash 10 shows red and green static which reacts to motion.

This means the camera is working, but isn't talking quite correctly with Flash. Tested on Update. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in. Namespaces Page Discussion. The standard OLPC system software can understand some but not all of these. Note that the standard OLPC software does not support common-but-restricted media file formats such as. See Restricted Formats for an explanation why.

However, it should be easy to add support for these, at the risk of violating software patents. See GStreamer MP3. Maybe Data file formats should have a link to a sample of each kind. Besides running Totem as a browser plug-in, you can also start it from the Terminal Activity.

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