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  • #11
    What's the status of Gnash?

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    • #12
      Originally posted by frign View Post
      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...

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      • #13
        Originally posted by frign View Post
        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.

        Originally posted by mark45 View Post
        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.
        Last edited by crazycheese; 28 October 2012, 05:11 PM.

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        • #14
          Originally posted by GreatEmerald View Post
          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.

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          • #15
            Originally posted by GreatEmerald View Post
            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.

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            • #16
              Originally posted by frign View Post
              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.

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              • #17
                Porno

                I only use Flash for porno.

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

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                • #18
                  Originally posted by uid313 View Post
                  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).

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                  • #19
                    Originally posted by uid313 View Post
                    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.

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                    • #20
                      Now if only it worked on YouTube, instead of displaying the "loading dots" at the bottom of the applet and nothing else.
                      Last edited by Dewitt501; 28 October 2012, 09:15 PM.

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