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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:00 am    Post subject: Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Flash on Linux Reply with quote

Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Flash on Linux

The first I got to know was gnash. Now I heard about lightspark. When looking for information why there are 2 projects and where the differences are I found this interesting article:

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/360557-weekend-project-open-source-alternatives-to-adobe-flash-on-linux

In this thread I would like to discuss and track the usability for our PPC.
Does anyone have experiences with either of these 2?
I have gnash installed, and since there is no alternative anyway I also activated it for Firefox.
I was able to play audio-only content on amazon.com (well partially they also offer some RealPlayer contents which still play fine with the old Helix-Player binary for PPC). The only problem is that the flash-player does not recognize the end of a track and plays all tracks simultaneously resulting in a lot of noise.
I am able to see the youtube-player but I'm not able to start a video.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hey !

i would also like to hear from others what they are using to play flash media. My experience so far :

- gnash - does only play old flash for me, have never been able to play any youtube videos f.ex.
- lightspark - it apparently works but there is no output at all here in youtube f.ex. IIRC lightspark doesnt use altivec yet and therefore the thing is way to slow.
- swfdec - i was able to play youtube with this one some time ago ( it doesnt work right now for me anymore though). It was very slow too when it worked.

some also played with qemu+adobe-flash, but i havent tried yet.
I think the main problem is the hardware too, i think my pb just isnt powerfull enough to render this kind of stuff.

Any other options ?

cheers
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i still use firefox-3.6.x+gnash-0.8.9 and it works just fine on my dual G5 with crux ppc 64bit thus, i guess, it'll work fine on gentoo too.

here some ss i found around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDF7cM1tApc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99831298@N00/5266150612/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99831298@N00/5750645142/

but, instead, on my system the youtube bar is well rendered.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No.

We should be more considered about silverlight. That's a major threat.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dE_logics wrote:
No.

We should be more considered about silverlight. That's a major threat.


Silverlight?!? Maybe you'are talking about Moonlight (mono-project).
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 7:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

blob999 wrote:
dE_logics wrote:
No.

We should be more considered about silverlight. That's a major threat.


Silverlight?!? Maybe you'are talking about Moonlight (mono-project).


Yeah yeah I know, that's why it's a major concern. It's waaay behind Sliverlight versions and MS is keeping the specifications secret; maybe they'll encrypt Silverlight content next to avoid reverse engineering.
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