Lightspark 0.4.2 Open-Source Flash Player Released

[RoboJ1M]

Does anybody know how to get it to work though?

I have Ubuntu 10.04 with the defualt Firefox installation.

I tried installing Lightspark from the available PPA and removing adobe but it didn't work.

Regards,

J1M.

[droidhacker]

why don't they merge it with gnash and have a single project ?

Duplicate code.
gnash implements the functionality that has been discovered via reverse engineering and other general hacking.

The idea here is to start from fresh using spec as a guide, build something complete and good without all the hacks.

Problem with shoveling in heaps of gnash is that you'll end up with a hybrid mess that doesn't follow spec and doesn't work right.

[89c51]

why don't they merge it with gnash and have a single project ?

[blindfrog]

Hmmmm when gnash fallback is ready (for older flash files and many flash movies). I think I can say bye bye bye to adobe's resource hog once and for all hurray! Even then hopefully HTML5 will just kill flash as soon as possible

[misiu_mp]

For youtube there is the totem youtube plugin. No web, no flash, no comments, no mess and it is accelerated.

[Lynxeye]

[...]and hooks into Gnash, another free software Flash player in certain areas for now.

This is false. The Gnash Fallback is planned for version 0.4.3, it is not ready yet.

[TheWretched]

You mostly don't need Flash for Youtube anymore anyways... just use a browser with WebM or HTML video tag support and you are set to go... sadly the embedded videos in other websites still mandate Flash, which sucks pretty badly.

[EarthMind]

I just need complete Youtube support and then I'm sold. I could care less about other flash based websites etc.

[brent]

As far as I know Hulu only uses RTMP, which hardly can be called "DRM". RTMP has been reverse-engineered a while ago.

[cl333r]

Couldn't care less about Hulu, give me youtube support and I'm almost sold.