Now that Adobe sentenced Flash Player for GNU / Linux to death (unless you use Google Chrome), it is necessary to look for good alternatives for this application and gnash is one of them.
Coincidentally, the version was recently released Gnash 0.8.1 with some improvements:
- Qt4 GUI supports scrolling with the mouse wheel, clipboard, and screen resolution.
- Increased user interface support for scripting limits.
- New functions for BitmapData: copyPixels (), copyChannel (), perlinNoise ().
- New OpenVG rendering engine.
- Improved GUI and touchscreen framebuffer support.
- Thumbnails for SWF files and GNOME2 settings for it.
- Many others..
Although this is an excellent alternative, we cannot forget another that is a little more advanced: lights park, but we'll talk about that another time. You can download Gnash with its source code from here: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.10, or the binaries (experimental) from here: http://www.getgnash.org/packages.
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Let's see I think that in the future we will have to use Google Chrome to watch flash videos in GNU / Linux in a bit go to extremes; Adobe has developed a new API Pepper together with Google and its Chrome, but this does not mean that Mozilla won't be able to integrate this API when it comes time to Firefox, and I guess it will, because I don't think it's going to blow its users away.
Anyway, Adobe Flash in its next version 11.2 will be a maintenance version, so until this happens ...
I don't even use Flash ... nor any counterpart ... LOL !!!
I don't watch online videos, nothing like that, and in case at some point I can, HTML5 will be my most faithful friend 😀
How do you not use flash?
Right now I sent a plane to… (Cuba?) Hahahahaha
How do you do then without flash? I hate that when something disappears (an application, a dependency, whatever) there are many without alternatives. Nobody would be interested if Paint, or even Office disappears, but no, they want to do it in a big way
In the same way, this brings about a growth of tools that are FOR EVERYONE AND FOREVER. So I'm complaining for now
haha nope, neither me nor elav we watch videos online, it's our ISP's fault ... going into details would never end 🙂
Always crying for the same story
So is. As I saw in other news, at least it was Mozilla that he did not want support the new API for I don't know what excuse (real or invented).
There is also another interesting alternative called Lightspark:
http://lightspark.github.com/
Evidently Huguito did not read the end of the post JAJAJAJAA
Hehe ...
Effectively. When I realized my mistake, it was late (and I couldn't even apologize because the connection froze).
Nothing, moments that one has to write without having made sure before having the brain connected to the hands (and the eyes), hehe.
Errare humanum is 😉
Let's see if they do support Gnash now.
I always saw Linuxers with bipolarity ranting because Adobe is bad, bad, discriminating and because their Flash is crap but also crying and begging because they love Flash and they blacked them out. What was constant was making Gnash disgust.
Today the only option is Gnash, just wait for HTML5 to sit down, it still has a long way to go to standardize and improve its performance, which is currently scary.
You have to support Gnash who has always been there and in return has always received constant bad thanks.
there is still the bug of playing jumps to full screen when we have high resolution
for youtube videos the perfect tool is minitube
the image quality is impressive
My alternative will be to use HTML 5 as much as possible, and if it is necessary to use Flash for bigger reasons, try to use the free alternative (Gnash or LightSpark) in case those don't work either the only solution would be to put a bomb in my XDDDD University
Lightspark can be found in the Debian Wheezy repositories.
Well, I do not use Gnash or ligthspark, not because it is bad or low quality, simply because I am a web developer of the new guard and I give all my support and effort for HTML5, so "I will wait for it", although I will have to stop early because HTML5 advances a thousand times faster than Gnash and its counterparts.
It is simply the future, remember how everything progresses today, a matter of a year and HTML5 is already in the final stretch for these parts, companies are going to fight all they want but they are forced to agree because they are losing money and all is said. They don't care about us, they care about our money and gentlemen, the HTML5 standard is everyone's money.
I'm so sorry to the GNU fanboys :(, but gnash is even worse than flash crap, from bad to worse LOL.
Here in Debian I have not installed Flash, and rather I am considering Gnash and I see that it is progressing well. That "Lightspark" looks interesting too, I look forward to your analysis (or a Flash vs Gnash vs Lightspark article) to make up my mind, because like KZKG ^ Gaara, I don't watch (many) videos online.
Greetings 😉
Che, many loaded, many alternatives, all very nice but it would be nice if someone explains how to install / use this tool, I do not have the slightest idea of how to do it, install the package and then? I remove the flash and then? As I do? 🙂
I would like to try these alternatives, but I have no idea how to do it
Hi. I'm a relatively new Linux user, because I'm 26, but I know him from 13 haha. He was not using it because he lacked a long time to be able to do the daily Windows. But now I already have Opensuse and Ubuntu installed. Now I am using Ubuntu a lot, and regarding Flash, it has always seemed crap to me, it works badly on both Windows and Linux. This I think has been because being a private company, they have a lot of pressure to generate profits in the short term, and the developers must look like black slaves trying to make things work well. On the other hand, if it were a Linux-style development, it would be much faster in my opinion, since in Linux it is done freely, without pressure and with the contribution of all, if the one that drives a tool as important as, for example, Gnash , Lightspark, or HTML5 would like it that way.
Anyway, hopefully a strong movement will emerge with the development of its own "flash" for linux, as well as the Wine developer, that guy does deserve great respect: p.
Oh, and I use the latest flash version for Linux 64 bit, 11.2. I had to resort to the solutions to not see everything blue, and now it works fine, but it is usable….
Best regards.