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vendion

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[Solved] Need help with Gnash

Seeing as how Gnash 0.8.8 was released and they are saying all youtube videos work on their project page, I figured I would dump Flash 10.0.x for that.  So after installing the gnash-common package nether Chromium or Seamonkey lists the Gnash plugin in their "about:plugins" page.  Is there anything special I need to do in order to get it to work?

Last edited by vendion (2010-08-25 14:22:11)

wonder

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Re: [Solved] Need help with Gnash

in gnash-gtk is the actually plugin for browser

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stqn

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Re: [Solved] Need help with Gnash

After spending one hour searching how to make Firefox use gnash instead of Flash (it was in the "Add-ons" window...), I can say that... gnash 0.8.8 doesn't work at all. Nothing is displayed (on youtube for example.)

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wonder

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Re: [Solved] Need help with Gnash

After spending one hour searching how to make Firefox use gnash instead of Flash (it was in the "Add-ons" window...), I can say that... gnash 0.8.8 doesn't work at all. Nothing is displayed (on youtube for example.)

it does say somewhere that you need to clear the flash cookies. i deleted from my home directory .adobe/ and .macromedia/ and refreshed couples of times.

the sad thing is that VAAPI support doesn't work at all. ( echo "set hwaccel vaapi" >> /etc/gnashrc )

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genmich

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Re: [Solved] Need help with Gnash

64bit system

    File: libgnashplugin.so
    Version: 
    Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999.
    Gnash 0.8.8, the GNU SWF Player. Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about Gnash, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash.
    Compatible Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999.

youtube videos are working which is very nice!
vimeo, collegehumor and revision3 aren't.
Even a small selfmade as3 slideshow (just some urlloaders and loaders) isn't working. But at least its a start

stqn

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Re: [Solved] Need help with Gnash

it does say somewhere that you need to clear the flash cookies. i deleted from my home directory .adobe/ and .macromedia/ and refreshed couples of times.

Indeed, thanks for reminding me of this. However I deleted those two directories and all youtube cookies, but this didn't change anything: gnash still doesn't show anything.

Cdh

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Re: [Solved] Need help with Gnash

the sad thing is that VAAPI support doesn't work at all. ( echo "set hwaccel vaapi" >> /etc/gnashrc )

For me it did work, kind of. Did you compile it with the options? http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d47j2/

360p and 720p were fine with vaapi but not as smooth as it could have been. CPU usage is also 100% but at least the video runs WAY better than without vaapi.

480p is broken with vaapi like the reddit link states.

1080p has like 1 fps with or without vaapi.

Also the youtube player is not fully functional. You can't use the "make it bigger" - button and the progress bar is not really working.

I'll stay with flash for now.

edit: If you want firefox to use gnash INSTEAD of flashplugin, then it's easiest to just pacman -R flashplugin.

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vendion

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Re: [Solved] Need help with Gnash

in gnash-gtk is the actually plugin for browser

/me facepalms

I thought the gnash-gtk was for the standalone part and the gnash common was the plugin, I'll install that now thanks

vendion

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Re: [Solved] Need help with Gnash

the sad thing is that VAAPI support doesn't work at all. ( echo "set hwaccel vaapi" >> /etc/gnashrc )

For me it did work, kind of. Did you compile it with the options? http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d47j2/

360p and 720p were fine with vaapi but not as smooth as it could have been. CPU usage is also 100% but at least the video runs WAY better than without vaapi.

480p is broken with vaapi like the reddit link states.

1080p has like 1 fps with or without vaapi.

Also the youtube player is not fully functional. You can't use the "make it bigger" - button and the progress bar is not really working.

I'll stay with flash for now.

edit: If you want firefox to use gnash INSTEAD of flashplugin, then it's easiest to just pacman -R flashplugin.

Given the problems with Gnash it is still better than flash considering I'm on a 64 bit machine and therefore stuck with flash 10.0.x, I would prefer something that has problems but gets updates over something that has security issues and won't be fixed.  (Same reason I switched to Linux from windows years ago )

As for the "make it bigger" button as long as full screen works, just tested and it does, then I think I can live

Last edited by vendion (2010-08-25 14:17:21)