Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Tin Tin wrote:
>>>> isn' there a FSF approved Flash version out there, maybe in beta
>>> status?
>>> Yep, it's called Gnash, and it's in the beta stage as far as I know.
>> By the way, why don't the FSF support the free "swfdec"? I heard that
>> it supports Youtube now.
> 
> I don't know.  The gnash developers seem to be aware of it
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01694.html), so I bet
> there's a good reason (maybe they are using some code too, since swfdec
> is LGPL).  For YouTube, I use ytplay.bash
> (http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~mflaschen3/gnewsense/ytplay.bash).
> 
> Matt Flaschen
> 
> P.S. The next release of Gnash is supposed to support Youtube
> (http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnash).
> 
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I've noticed that that 'ytplay.bash' script uses ffplay to play the
Flash files from Youtube. Is that the only programme in gNewSense 1.1
which will play them? The version of VLC in Ubuntu Edgy plays them quite
well, but unfortunately the version in gNewSense doesn't seem to play
them at all.

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