On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:36:55AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:08:08AM -0600, Stanley Lieber wrote: > > The port I found below compiles cleanly but will not build the package > > on my i386/4.4 system. Flash Player 9 (suggested by the creator of the > > port) installs but will not render YouTube clips in my browser. The > > Flash Player 7 installed by the Opera Flash plugin port does work with > > YouTube. > > if all you want is to play youtube videos, gnash actually works a > lot better in -current using the sndio gstreamer backend than it > did with the gstreamer OSS backend.
On the other hand, there are a lots of fuck-ups yet in gnash. It's not only the audio backend, buttons tend not to work, for instance. So, even if we don't really like linux emulation, nor proprietary flash, there's no reason to ditch the effort of people who want to make it work.
