On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 04:12:32AM -0700, Carson wrote: > Hi, > > I met some problems when trying to use Gnash. It would be highly appreciated > if someone can help answer or sort out any of the following problems. > > 1. Gnash 0.83 was installed on my system (Ubuntu). But I cannot open > Youtube.com video files on Firefox. Is it possibly the problem of Youtube's > new player (called watch.swf) which is SWF9? I cannot open any other video > files from the video sharing websites whose player is SWF8 or SWF9. But I can > open those from www.lulu.tv, whose player is SWF7, with Gnash plug-in. In > addition, the Youtube.com video files can be opened through Gnash standalone > application successfully.
I confirm watch.swf is SWF9 but gnash plays fine. It's been reported to have problems when the 'startStopped' directive is set. Also, gstreamer media handler might suffer from timing issues. > 2. I am wondering if Gnash standalone application can open a flv file locally > without swf player. (e.g. gnash ./some_video.flv). When I run it, it always > fails with the reports: > 10312:3063994976] 12:01:00 SECURITY: Checking security of URL > 'file:///home/user1/prj/gnash > /build/bin/get_video.flv' ... > Would it be possible to find a way to play flv files locally without using > swf player? It would, if someone implements it. In trunk I added recognition of .flv files, so you'd get a different error message, more instructive about it. > 3. The SWF files of SWF8 and/or SWF9 opened through Gnash 0.8.3 can always > partially work, or even not work at all. I am wondering to what extent Gnash > 0.83 supports SWF8 and SWF9 now. It seems to me only a little(20%) portion > SWF8 and SWF9 can work. Biggest SWF9 support limit is ABC interpreter. We're planning support for it. SWF8 support should be fairly advanced. Please file bugs as you find problems. --strk; _______________________________________________ Gnash mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash
