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This is from : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#YouTube_and_WebM_support

“”" Google has recently open sourced VP8 video format and combined it with Ogg Vorbis audio and a adaptation of the Matroska container to create a new format for free and open video and audio called WebM. YouTube is switching over to using WebM extensively and Fedora has embraced this format as well. Fedora 13 and Fedora 12 has updates to Gstreamer multimedia framework to enable users to play many YouTube videos directly without any use of Flash via browsers such as Epiphany and Midori which use Gstreamer. Fedora 12 users also need the webkitgtk update. Once you have the updates installed, to enable support for it in YouTube, go to http://youtube.com/html5 and click on “Join the HTML5 Beta” link in the bottom of that page. Note that all videos are not available in WebM format yet but this is expected to happen over time. Here is a sample video for testing. Fedora 14 will have more extensive support for WebM by default. “”"

In my view it is fairly a very good news.

Hello,

Today I was at FAD Pune, along with few fedora India contributors from different places. It was nice to see Susmit, Sayamindu, Ankur and few other friends whom I meet often on #fedora-india channel.

It was started by a nice Autotools workshop by Siddhesh. Later I started looking at security bugs pointed by Rahul. Pushed fixes for few of them during whole day. It also involved tested the reproducer.

Updates which I pushed specifically today were:

ircd-ratbox and ircd-hybrid – update

xinha – update

liboggz – update

Along with those I pushed updates to fedora for aircrack-ng and Clam AntiVirus to rawhide. But I am still to confirm whether fix for them really knocks out the security flaw. So, kept them hanging in rawhide. Also did some bug triaging in between.

/rakesh

Haven’t posted anything for long. So, thought about writing about what I had been upto with fedora from last week.

* Pushed following updates to rawhide:

1. Mayavi – 3.3.0

which failed because of some nimpy lib failure

from numpy.linalg import lapack_lite
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/linalg/lapack_lite.so: undefined symbol: zgesdd_

which I will fix tomorrow.

2. Traits – 3.2.0

3. EnvisagePlugins – 3.1.1

4. EnvisageCore – 3.1.1

5. AppTools – 3.3.0

6. EnthoughtBase – 3.03

7. TraitsGUI – 3.1.0

8. TraitsBackendQt – 3.2.0

9. setupdocs – 1.0.3

10. transifex – 0.8.0alpha

11. TaskCoach – 0.78.2

12. pdf2djvu – 0.6.2

13. ginac – 1.5.6

14. gflags – 1.3

15. fuse-zip – 0.2.11

16. flickcurl – 1.16

17. lynis – 1.2.9

* Reviewed following haskell programs to clear long awaiting ghc-* breakages in rawhide
1. ghc-html
2. ghc-xhtml
3. ghc-regex-posix
4. ghc-regex-base
5. ghc-regex-compat
6. ghc-haskell-src
7. ghc-parallel
8. ghc-QuckCheck
9. ghc-stm

* FTBFS: linphone, sitecopy, opencv, taskcoach

* bugzcxx

- Fixed and improved build files
- Fixed examples
- Support for old versions improved
- fixed compilation options
- fixed implicit references to functions from xmlrpc_helper file.
- Removed unused variables.
- Fixed implicit declaration of strptime function.
- Commented out validate_url for later development and removed its (not so sane) usage from init functions.
- Fixed wrongly declared static variable in bugzc/bugzc_product.c .
- Renamed timezone in examples/bugzc/gettimezone.c to time_zone because it was shadowning declarations from time.h
- Fixed return value for bugzc_list_create from bugzc/bugzc_list.c.
- Updated support files
- Fixed password handling
- Updated documentation
- etc

This week has been fun so far. Hopefully weekend will also be cool. Met Dimitris Glezos ( transifix uber_cool_hacker ) yesterday with few fri-en-ds. Had nice Kashmiri food (Roganzosh, Kabargah etc ) at Casinova/Shikara at Kalayani Nagar. There are some nice pics with Demitris and Ramky, will post them sometime later

This week along with updating bugzilla I pushed few updates to rawhide fedora for following packages up-imapproxy, lynis, unhide, zile, ginac, gflags, fuse-zip, enet, ctemplate, flickcurl, djvulibre, gedit-plugins, ortp etc. They are mostly new releases and some of them are bugfixes.

This also involves gedit bug fix push in new update release.

I have been working on inetutils for some time. Recently added BSD options –timeout (equivalent to -w) and about to write down –timeout-response (equivalent to -W) to ping/ping6. Now is time to remove all redundant calls to sys/socket api and integrate both commands as much as possible.

I will be picking next tasks from TODO. 1.6 release needs lot of work.

Thanks Alfred for all review work

1. Gach will be released on 15 Aug .. first very basic version .. will have all modules working and at least achieve Nim Nim’s request here. Please file in tickets for all special requests.

project page: https://fedorahosted.org/gach/wiki

2. Next two weeks I will be away to Delhi and then Jammu. Wouldn’t be available online.

If you are using fedora+emacs and constantly use jabber for chatting .. you will love emacs jabber. As posted last time, I am using it since then and it is wonderful. Now I have both erc for IRC and emacs-jabber for gmail on my programming editor. Last week I had posted a review at emacs jabber . In case you are using fedora 11 try out the rpm here.

I use gmail for chatting and my configuration options are:


(setq tls-program '("openssl s_client -connect %h:%p -no_ssl2 -no_ticket"))
(setq jabber-account-list
'(("user.name@gmail.com"
(:connection-type . ssl)
(:network-server . "talk.google.com"))))


You may like to check emacs-jabber/jabber-gmail.el for setting up email notifications also.

Thanks

It has been while .. I was looking to use gmail chat from emacs and today I started using emacs-jabber & packaged it for fedora .. review request is waiting!

Another good news:

Mayavi whole stack review request is complete for all packages and in a day or two will be in updates-testing. It has been long long work .. 10 packages and lot of upstream bug reporting.

I used to like F10 for its ordered download in accordance with size. It used to suite me on my slower net connection at home and strong connection at work place.

Today I wrote a small plugin today called yum-download-order with ( an evil hack, for which I have reasons) because order by size has been removed for long. It downloads packages in accordance with size (smallest first) or largest first.

I have put in fedora review request at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507410

http://rakesh.fedorapeople.org/yum/yum-download-order-0.1.tar.gz

http://rakesh.fedorapeople.org/srpm/yum-download-order-0.1-1.fc11.src.rpm

http://rakesh.fedorapeople.org/misc/yum-download-order-0.1-1.fc11.noarch.rpm

From README file:

Usage
======

Configure
=========

File: /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/download-order.conf

Options: for downloadorder can be ‘default’, ‘smallestfirst’,
‘largestfirst’ and by default ‘smallestfirst’ is selected.

e.g
[main]
enabled=1
downloadorder=smallestfirst

Options with yum command
========================

Yum command options will override configure file options.

e.g yum –download-order=largestfirst install or
yum –download-order=smallestfirst install

I was planning to put in a download-by-deps ordering also, but first though about looking for use cases. So, in case you find it useful — i.e download by size or by deps .. please mention the use case here ?

Thanks,

I started with a spade to make a house and found myself cleaning the cruft. And this has been since some time now. But place seems to be clean enough for me to start something which may seem apparent e.g you may soon be using -q to query both bin rpm files as well as queries. And there are more surprises in coming month.

It was not that easy as it may seem. And yes I am playing with DRAGONS. And I applaud for people who are controlling these dragons these days and the hard work they are putting into. No No I am not talking about dragons from myths, but our own centre of rpm universe rpm upstream.