Gnash
 Gnash is a player
for
animated "movies" in the Macromedia Shockwave Flash (.swf)
format. It can be run as a graphical application, as a Web
browser plugin, or as a library used by other programs.
Gnash is originally based on the code of GameSWF, by Thatcher
Ulrich. GameSWF was the most advanced among free flash movie players;
it implemented a fairly broad set of Flash Format v7 features, using 3D
hardware APIs for rendering.
Gnash is capable of reading up to SWF v9 files and opcodes,
but primarily supports SWF v7, with better SWF v8 and v9 support under
heavy development. Gnash has implemented about 80% of
ActionScript v2.0, and has begun implementing ActionScript v3.0.
The goal of the Gnash developers is to be as compatible as
possible with the proprietary player (including behaviour on bad
ActionScript code). However, Gnash offers some special features not
available in the Adobe player, such as the possibility to extend the
ActionScript classes via shared libraries: sample extensions include
MySQL support, file system access and more.
The web browser plugin installs itself into Mozilla, Firefox,
or Konqueror.
It can play some Flash files in cooperation with the browser. It should
work with any browser that supports the of Mozilla's NSPR API and
plugin SDK.
Gnash 0.8.9
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Price
Free to download
Size
3.7 MB
License
GNU GPL v3
Developer
Sandro Santilli, Bastiaan Jacques, Tomas Groth, Udo
Giacomozzi, Markus Gothe, Hannes Mayr, John Gilmore, Zou Lunkai,
Benjamin Wolsey
Website
www.gnashdev.org
System Requirements
CPU: > 300MHz processor
RAM: 128MB
Codec support to handle video and audio
Support
Sites:
Documentation,
Gnash
Mailing Lists, Blogs, FAQ, Testing
the Gnash Player in Ubuntu 7.10, Spotlight on Gnash
Selected
Reviews:
O'Reilly
Broadcast, Gnash
Review,
Free
Software Magazine
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Features include:
- Runs standalone to play flash movies
- Browser plugin (Firefox, Konqueror, Mozilla)
- SWF v7+ compliant
- Streaming video from video sharing sites like Lulu.tv or
YouTube.com
- XML Message server
- High Quality ouput using OpenGL for rendering the graphics,
and AntiGrain for embedded framebuffer only devides
- Security, allowing the user to control access to network
connections
- Extensible
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Last Updated Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 03:31 PM EST
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