Gnash 0.8.6 Release Brings New Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Gnash 0.8.6 Release Brings New Features

On the same day as talking about H.264 video acceleration for Flash via VA-API in Gnash, a new Gnash release has come about (although it doesn't contain any of these video playback improvement). Gnash 0.8.6 though does contain a number of other improvements. Among the new items in this SWF/Flash player that's endorsed by the Free Software Foundation is implementing Camera and Microphone capabilities along with several other parts of the SWF specification, better A/V synchronization, parsing improvements, stubs for all ActionScript 3 classes, an initial AVM2 implementation, a re-factored network engine, and many other changes. The full list of highlights for Gnash 0.8.6 along with source download links is available from the Gnash Project blog...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzU1Ng

[Ant P.]

But does it play youtube videos any better than swfdec yet? i.e. not having to type "fmt=6" at the end of every URL.

[chithanh]

Gnash can play youtube videos just fine.

[blindfrog]

Hopefully they'll be able to get avm2 support working well by spring ---> Many more video sites would work.