GNU Gnash released
| From: | John Sullivan <johns-AT-fsf.org> | |
| To: | info-press-AT-gnu.org | |
| Subject: | [GNU/FSF Press] FSF Announces GNU Gnash - Flash Movie Player | |
| Date: | Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:01:27 -0500 |
Media Contact: Free Software Foundation <pr@gnu.org>
Phone: +1-617-542-5942
FSF Announces GNU Gnash - Flash Movie Player
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Monday, January 9, 2006 - The Free Software
Foundation announced today the addition of Gnash, the GNU Flash movie
player and Firefox plugin, licensed under the GNU General Public License
(GNU GPL).
Gnash is a project to build a SWF version 7 compliant flash player
with high-quality imaging. It is the most advanced free flash player
that currently exists, and an important addition to the GNU project.
The release of Gnash represents the achievement of one of the free
software movement's high priority projects (see
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html).
Rob Savoye, maintainer of Gnash, outlined details of the project and
made a call for developer support, "Right now Gnash is playing more
movies than any of the other free players. All ActionScript classes
exist and work, but not all the methods of each class are fully
implemented. With a few more developers, it could be reasonably complete
in a few months."
Features include:
Runs as a standalone application - Gnash can run standalone to play
flash movies.
Firefox plugin - Gnash can run as a plugin from within Firefox and
Mozilla.
SWF v7 compliant - Gnash can play many current flash movies.
XML Message server - Gnash also supports an XML-based message system
as is documented in the Flash Format specification.
High Quality Output - Gnash uses OpenGL for rendering the graphics.
The home page of the project is at
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/>>. The Gnash development sources
are accessible via anonymous CVS from
<http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnash/>>. The anonymous CVS services
are provided by Savannah, a web front-end for hosting and maintaining
project homepages, bug tracking, CVS, FTP, and mailing lists, running
entirely on free software, without ads, for the entire community.
Gnash development is being funded by PubSoft. PubSoft supports free
software projects by connecting developers with funding
<https://www.pubsoft.org/pubsoft.py/viewprojects>>.
About the Free Software Foundation:
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computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute
computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as
in freedom) software - particularly the GNU operating system and its
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Posted Jan 10, 2006 15:40 UTC (Tue)
by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
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Posted Jan 10, 2006 17:21 UTC (Tue)
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Posted Jan 11, 2006 10:15 UTC (Wed)
by mjr (guest, #6979)
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Ah well, it's not as if it's a release. I'm sure it'll get fixed.
Posted Jan 10, 2006 18:46 UTC (Tue)
by Thalience (subscriber, #4217)
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But if they don't make an announcement, how will developers know about it?
Posted Jan 10, 2006 18:56 UTC (Tue)
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Posted Mar 29, 2006 14:28 UTC (Wed)
by etatoby (guest, #36824)
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Macromedia's proprietary Win32 player must be one of their most tested, performing, and stable pieces of software, considering the investment they have on the damn thing.
And it's not like Windows users would appreciate the freedom in free software: remember, they like Firefox because IE sucks, not because it's free!
Hmmm. This seems a bit premature. The web site listed still says that the project is only of interest to developers, and that when something is released, it'll be available in ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnash/ -- which as of this posting still doesn't exist.GNU Gnash released
Right. It crashes on everything I've tried to feed it. Not to mention there is a bug in the makefile.GNU Gnash released
But then the proprietary flash player on Firefox crashed on a lot of stuff - so much so that I was forced to uninstall it because it made browsing a very painful experience.GNU Gnash released
I'm running a clean amd64 environment - no proprietary flash player at all, no crashes. Lucky me ;-) In fact, I use swfdec - which, although doesn't render all flash animations and sometimes saturates the CPU usage, so far has never crashed firefox.GNU Gnash released
Incidentally, I tried to compile Gnash (the latest snapshot some time after the announcement) for amd64, and it failed due to trying to cast a pointer to integer.GNU Gnash released
Of interest only to developers, perhaps. I'd actually think many usersGNU Gnash released
will do a little dance when they find out there is promising development in the flashplayer area. I know I did.
On rereading, the problem is with the LWN headline, not the press release. The title shouldn't be "GNU Gnash released", because it hasn't been. It should be something like "GNU Gnash -- it's, like, a thing, almost!" :)GNU Gnash released
Agreed: Jon, I suggest that you fix the headline. The FSF did not use the word "released", and it is clear from the announcement text that it's really a call for developer assistance. What is being announced is a project, not a product.
GNU Gnash released
I misread this as "GNU Cash" released and wondered why they were talking about shockwave files. Although post-Christmas and winter heating bills can be a bit of a shockwave themselves...Oh, "Gnash".
Ditto. Perhaps they should change the name to Ogden, but then it would be a room full of audio stuff, no?Oh, "Gnash".
Or just "gnuflash", which is at least descriptive...except it sounds a bit like the singular form of an unexpected broadcast media announcement (and even worse if it's "Gnu's Flash").Oh, "Gnash".
hoping to get some stable version sometime soonGNU Gnash released
Also not just for linux but also a port for win32GNU Gnash released
What's the point of a Win32 release?GNU Gnash released