Open-Source Flash Player Continues To Advance

[frign]

What's the status of Gnash?

[GreatEmerald]

What's the status of Gnash?

Slow? There hasn't been a release for 7 months now, and their website hasn't been updated for more than a year...

[crazycheese]

What's the status of Gnash?

Gnash displays youtube videos, including HD. It is capable to play flash animations and games if they do not rely on new version of actionscript.
Around ~80% flash movies and ~50% with flash games. However sometimes it fails to run "player" applications, which render gnash for web videos or audio useless.

OpenGL frontend is broken on nvidia binary, pango backend is half-broken - yet uses very low CPU. The standard backend is good, but is highly cpu intensive, around 1.5x of blob flash.

Adobe _is_ developing flash for Linux, just not thru the old interface, hence FF is stuck at flash v. 11.2. However, Chrome on Linux ships with the latest flash Version: 11.4.31.110.

Adobe delivers Falsh only via PPAPI, so its not for linux, but for PPAPI.

As official site says, version 11.2 is the last supported on Linux.

[Ex-Cyber]

Slow? There hasn't been a release for 7 months now, and their website hasn't been updated for more than a year...

There is sporadic activity in the repo, though, so at least It's not like it's stood still for those 7 months.

[crazycheese]

Slow? There hasn't been a release for 7 months now, and their website hasn't been updated for more than a year...

Official flashplayer license forces anyone using it to accept it and forbids anyone from writing compatible client.
Even if one installs player, this is sufficient to prevent him from working on gnash. This is proprietary at its best.

[timothyja]

What's the status of Gnash?

Why are there still two projects surely the devs from these projects should get together and work on merging them into one project. Seems like a huge waste of effort to me.

[BO$$]

It's a fucking insult. That's what it is. I have Ubuntu 12.10 with firefox 16.0.2 and the youtube player cannot create a large player. I only can use the small one or the fullscreen. Can't like open source take over and continue flash development? I don't understand why only google has the custom player in chrome? Why don't other browsers use it? I can't stand that chrome shit and like firefox, but the flash support is shit.

[uid313]

I only use Flash for porno.

So for Lightspark or Gnash to be a replacement, it needs to be porno-compatible.

[aliasbody]

I only use Flash for porno.

So for Lightspark or Gnash to be a replacement, it needs to be porno-compatible.

The only viable alternatives only work outside the browser (like the on I created where you just have to put the link in order to see the video). So until this get corrected there is no hope for that (apart of course of using the mobile version of the website if he has any).

[Desiderantes]

I only use Flash for porno.

So for Lightspark or Gnash to be a replacement, it needs to be porno-compatible.

So true it hurts.