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Gnash

Posted May 16, 2008 6:46 UTC (Fri) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
Parent article: Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta

In other news, Gnash 0.8.3 (soon to be released) seems to be able to play also some other
video sites besides Youtube, including embedded Youtube which didn't work for me before. Also
the usual improvements ie. more sites working otherwise, too. Not much on the Flash 9 side
yet, though, probably starting after this release.

Pre-release in eg. Debian experimental.


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swfdec

Posted May 16, 2008 12:19 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

swfdec plays almost all video sites. Unfortunately, Flash 9 is not supported either.

Gnash

Posted May 16, 2008 13:22 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

I installed the gnash plugin. Got into a flash-enabled site. Got a separate 100% CPU process
that eats some 160MB of memory for each flash window. 

It is mostly good for displaying adds. and not much more. Thus in the mean time I have no
flash player installed on my system.

Gnash

Posted May 16, 2008 15:30 UTC (Fri) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

I've seen that before, but the 0.8.3 pre-release I referred to has behaved relatively nicely
so far, with the notable exception of Google Analytics.

Anyway, I used to have no flash player, but have now had Gnash installed for a while. But
indeed there has been a need to killall gtk-gnash on some sites, hopefully it's going to be
soon over.

It does display many company sites properly for me, probably because if there is any sense
left in a company first of all producing home pages in Flash, they choose to stay at Flash 7
level for compatibility.

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