gnash 0.8.0

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Atrox wrote:

>
>
> Dmitry Marakasov-2 wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Sorry for the long delay with gnash port update to 0.8.0. Many things
>> happened, but now I finally have some spare time.
>>
>> Here's preliminary version of 0.8.0 port. It (hopefully) builds and
>> it (more or less) supports many gnash build options such as chosing
>> GUI/renderer/media handler and building streaming flash server (cygnal).
>> The main show-stopper is that gnash will segfault on any .swf video,
>> so I decided to post to the maillist to keep you guys informed. Also,
>> maybe someone will fix this bug faster than me so I can update the port
>> sooner. I've written to gnash maillist already so I hope it'll be fixed
>> soon in any case.
>>
>> Remember that the port is still unfinished: not all combinations of
>> options were tested, possibly some depends are missing and it doesn't
>> build at all WITH_SDL.
>>
>> Attached are the port itself and some gdb output on a segfault.
>> Those are also available from http://www.amdmi3.ru/gnash/
>>
>
> Hi.
>
> I just installed Gnash 0.8.1 on FreeBSD-6.2. I took your port-files and
> changed version numbers and distfiles' info. Gnash installed successfully,
> but if I try to play some random swf, sound seems to be OK, but picture is
> not.
>
> Also, Konqueror found the gnash plugin to use it for flash, but gnash
> doesn't seem to work in Konqueror at all. Firefox found it too, but Firefox
> shows at least something, although I wasn't able to play any video from
> Youtube.
>
> Is it FreeBSD port or Gnash itself?
Gnash developers themselves admit it is compatible to something 
between flash4 and flash5. Thus gnash will probably crash on many 
occasions. You _might_ have better success on youtube with 
www/swfdec-plugin.

Greetings,

P.U.Kruppa.

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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany