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Massimo B.
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 Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:00 am Post subject: Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Flash on Linux |
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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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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 ?
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No.
We should be more considered about silverlight. That's a major threat.
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| 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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| 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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