On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:50:38 +0000

nawcom  wrote:
> I checked out the flash at the University of Utah site, and I must say

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> it is impressive for gnash. Looks like that swf was made with Flash 7,

> or at least that's its minimum requirement. Unfortunately, gnash has a

> while to go, as it will never be in a satisfactory state until - it

> loads YouTube videos. Yes, ridiculous, but true, since I'm sure that is

> one of the many flash sites that people want to load. :(

> -Ben

I've watched YouTube videos with Gnash, even with version 0.8.3.  Not

*all* of them worked, mind you, but quite a substantial number.
Here's one of my favorites (a real hoot, actually; a "translation", with

accompanying "visual aids", of what Joe Cocker was actually singing at

Woodstock) :-) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM
> Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

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> > On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:39:55 +0200

> > Martin Tournoij  wrote:

> >

> >

> >> Sign it here:

> >>

> >> http://www.petitiononline.com/0034655a/petition.html

> >>

> >

> > [snip]

> >

> > Well, personally, I'd rather light a candle than curse the darkness,

> > so...

> >

> > Today, I fetched the repo sources for the "HEAD" version of gnash,

> > built and installed it, and I must say, it's working far better than

> > the latest release version (0.8.3).  Sites that wouldn't work properly

> > before are now displaying beautifully.  Here's a good example of a

> > site that would break before, but works now:

> >

> > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/drugs/mouse.cfm

> >

> > See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/#downloading for info on how to

> > obtain the sources.  You'll need to install devel/bazaar-ng (yes, yet

> > another version control system!) to fetch the code.

> >

> > To configure, I ran "gnash -V" using the existing (0.8.3) version and

> > copied the configuration switches from the resulting output.  Then ran

> > gmake to build and install (after pkg_deleting the old version, of

> > course).

> >

> > I'm pleased with the results.  Still not 100% perfect, but a whole

> > heck of a lot better.

> >

> >

>

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