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#1 2009-10-28 19:59:43
- ataraxia
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Does gnash actually work for other people?
After each upgrade of gnash, I give it another try. So far, it's never worked to play even a single piece of content. I'm on x86_64, using firefox straight from the repos.
With the current 0.8.6, I get an assertion failure (which I have now lost the text of), and then it behaves as if the payload download timed out.
Sorry about the uselessly vague post. I'd love to hear success stories, and what you had to do to make it work.
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#2 2009-10-28 22:16:56
- sand_man
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Re: Does gnash actually work for other people?
To be honest, I've never actually tried using it. I just always assumed that it didn't work.
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#3 2009-10-28 22:23:27
- sctincman
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Re: Does gnash actually work for other people?
Once upon a time, the stars aligned and I could watch youtube videos on gnash (buggy interface though), but then youtube switched to the next version of flash and gnash has never worked since. Never to took the time to try it with anything else (about the only thing I use flash for...)
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#4 2009-10-28 23:13:32
- skottish
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Re: Does gnash actually work for other people?
It works here. The quality is still sub-par, but it works. You do have gnash-gtk installed too, right?
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#5 2009-10-28 23:56:06
- chpln
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Re: Does gnash actually work for other people?
Gnash works for many things. However, features of recent SWF versions (8+) are still unimplemented. So, it will likely fail on complicated Flash interfaces and, as mentioned, it will only play older videos on youtube.
For me it's still preferable to Adobe's offerings.
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