http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1128/
the solution is obvious--gnash must be developed. could canonical/ubuntu invest some development time in getting gnash working well? that would be great :)



[825 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #1128


[1 votes] Solution #2: Add hardware acceleration to Gnash


]]> en-us Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:36:21 +0000 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:27:18 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1128/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:39:00 +0000
It seems much more logical than ever hoping Adobe will ever open the official player up.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:47:55 +0000
However, better support ought to include work to get major services like Youtube away from non-Free formats.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:06:21 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:24:29 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:55:02 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:03:04 +0000
I want to have flash support out of the box, I don't care weather it's the adobe plugin or gnash, as long as it works.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:20:01 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:30:03 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:09:52 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:11:54 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:34:06 +0000
idea #1869: Let's count how many people want Adobe to fix Flash]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:42:46 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:43:04 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:50:16 +0000
the solution is to re-install flash 9,0,0,48

go to
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266

download the archived file
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp9_archive.zip

double click the installer and when asked open it in a terminal, follow the instructions.

another way could be to run firefox and flash in wine. The latest flash has some ripping issues, maybe older versions for windows might work better. It's sad to have to install a windows version of a program on linux, because the native version sux and buggy as hell in comparison...]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:30:45 +0000 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
It disables a flash applet until you click on it.]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:47:32 +0000
My wife actually went back to Windows because of Flash issues alone. Our kids were purchased these stuffed animals called "Webkinz" for Christmas that tie into a "virtual online pet" but the site is entirely flash-based (you can knock them for that but I don't see how they could have implemented their system any differently, it's one of those cases where Flash is a necessary evil). It works very poorly in Firefox/Linux.

So like it or not, the web is going more Flash-based and more and more Windows users are coming to expect usage from Flash-based sites like Youtube, Google Analytics not to mention all of the online game sites that are implemented in Flash.

I know we all hate Flash but unfortunately the reality is that this is actually something that can kill Linux on the desktop.

So yes. Either pour money into getting Gnash 100% implemented or find a way to give Adobe financial incentive to get the official player up to snuff. A big "YES" vote from me here.]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:36:12 +0000
Voted up.]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:12:17 +0000
With Gnash we can have the advantage of flash support out of the box, not even Windows has that :)

Voted up!]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:07:34 +0000 The true solution should be to avoid flash like Apple does with Iphone.
With Totem 2.22 & YouTube browser plugin, you can navigate through youtube videos without your browser and then without having flash
What about having other plugins (dailymotion...)
and encourage the use of HTML5 element ?]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:17:45 +0000 it is not fully developed...]]> Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:25:40 +0000
vent your anger here
blogs.adobe.com

Trust me, everything else is just a waste of time.

because

ubuntu is not going to fix that problem

and firefox won't fix it either.

it's up to Adobe, and let's make it worthwhile and let's post a hurricane of complaints, so they won't forget about us linux users in the future.

Thanks for reading]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:43:19 +0000 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:29:54 +0000
License-Free Spec
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/04/licensefree_spec.html
Tamarin (ActionScript Virtual Machine（AVM2）)
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Tamarin_Build_Documentation]]> Sat, 10 May 2008 11:22:19 +0000 Gnash is a High Priority Free Software project.
* http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
* http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html]]> Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:11:17 +0000 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:22:52 +0000 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:21:56 +0000
It would be best to get the people wasting time working of polishing a flash player, when we need a CREATOR that uses open technologies.

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Everything should be free, and we should try to make common things free, another example would be graphics card drivers, which proprietary always suck, ATI's are terrible especially.

-Sorry, off-topic.

+1 (and a half, because it's that great of an idea)]]> Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:58:17 +0000 anyone who tells me to try this-and-that will get punched in the face.]]> Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:07:18 +0000
So if we waste time on making a player, many more flash files will be released in the meantime. But if we instead work on a flash raw file to SVG/whatever converter, developers will have a way to release files that don't need the player, so we will stop the upward trend of flash usage. ]]> Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:12:06 +0000
Look at ToonBoom, FlashDevelop or some of the things on the http://osflash.org/ site.

In my view, for Gnash to work as a project it really, badly needs an IDE that can create graphical .swfs and a GNOME port of the FlashDevelop project. (The Flash community is split between actionscripters and animators, with an overlap in the middle that do both).

If Gnash had it's own IDE it would encourage Flash developers to switch to Linux and to experiment with things like SVG. It would also put pressure on Adobe to implement SVG properly in Flash.]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:27:18 +0000