Item posted by Markus Gothe <nihilus> on Tue 14 Oct 2008 03:22:57 AM UTC.

The third beta release of Gnash has just been made at version

0.8.4. Gnash is a GPL'd SWF movie player and browser plugin for

Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror. Gnash supports many SWF v7 features

and ActionScript 2 classes. with growing support for SWF v8 and

v9. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded

GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors, and 64 bit

architectures. Ports to Darwin and Windows are in progress for a

future release. The plugin works best with Firefox 1.0.4 or newer, and

should work in any Mozilla based browser using NPAPI. There is also a

standalone player for GNOME or KDE based desktops.



Improvements since 0.8.3 release are:



* Keep Adobe happy with our users and our users happy with us by

changing "Flash player" into "SWF player" everywhere. Adobe

claims "Flash" as a trademark and had asked a Linux distributor

to fix it.

* The popular SWF Twitter badge now renders correctly.

* Fix parsing of urls containing multiple question marks

* Fix support for movies embedding multiple sound streams

* Support for loading PNG and GIF images added.

* Improved rendering of SWF movies because of the less visible

changes listed below.

* Support for writing RGB/RGBA PNG images and JPEG images.

* Works with Potlatch OpenStreetMap editor

* New 'flvdumper' utility for analyzing FLV video files.

* XPI packaging support for Mozilla & Firefox.



See the NEWS file for more improvements.



Gnash supports the majority of Flash opcodes up to SWF version 7, and

a wide sampling of ActionScript 2 classes for SWF version 8.5. Flash

version 9 and ActionScript 3 support is being worked on. All the

core ones are implemented, and many of the newer ones work, but may be

missing some of their methods. If the browser only displays a blank

window, it is likely because of an unimplemented feature. All

unimplemented opcodes and ActionScript classes and methods print a

warning when using -v with gnash or gprocessor. Using gprocessor -v is

a quick way to see why a movie isn't playing correctly.



You can grab the Gnash sources from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.4,

or from Gnash Bzr from the branch .../gnas-0.8.4 . Binary packages for

Debian or RPM based systems will be available from your GNU/Linux

distribution, and from whatever BSD variant you are using. Experimental

binary packages built by the Gnash team are also available at

http://www.getgnash.org, along with source snapshots. Please

report packaging bugs upstream to your distribution. If you think you

have found a bug in Gnash, then you should file as complete a report

as possible at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnash. Patches are

always preferred to bug reports, as this is a community project. You

can submit patches at https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=gnash, or

email them to gnash-dev@gnu.org.



Please include the operating system name and version, compiler

version, and which gnash version you are using, in your bug

reports. For bugs in the plugin, please also add the browser and

it's version. Gnash does not support Firefox versions below 1.0.4.



Questions about Gnash or offers of help can go to the developers email

list at gnash-dev@gnu.org.



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