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Chain-Q
PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:30 pm 
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The GNU Flash plugin/player Gnash version 0.8.0 was just released. I think a flash plugin is one of the badly needed things for acceptable user/web experience in 2007... So could some friendly Linux developer build a version and package it for Debian Etch, and maybe some other stable distros? Of course i could build it for myself, but i guess most of the users are unable to do so.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:12 pm 
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So, it built for me, and even works, on Debian Etch. Needs quadzillion other packages though, but who cares when watching YouTube crap on my Pegasos is finally possible. :) Next, i'll test the Efika.

(BTW, i'm too lazy to Google, anyone to direct me to some Debian package creating tutorial?)
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Hi Karoly, please do. Perhaps, you can demo this at SceneCON! :D

R&B :)

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:04 am 
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Of course, I'll definitely try to. It needs to be tested first, if it runs with acceptable speed on the Efika.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:06 am 
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The GNU Flash plugin/player Gnash version 0.8.0 was just released. I think a flash plugin is one of the badly needed things for acceptable user/web experience in 2007... So could some friendly Linux developer build a version and package it for Debian Etch, and maybe some other stable distros? Of course i could build it for myself, but i guess most of the users are unable to do so.
Acrux has got it in his (crux) repos... but in needs quite a bit of dependencies... i used it in the past but it's quite unstable and it will crash your browser now and then while surfing the net :( so it's much better experience to browse the net without than with (well maybe it's me, i don't like moving things on the screen and flash stuff)
I can build one if you wish but then you will have to "debianize" it yourself... ;)
Alien should do the job BTW...

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:49 pm 
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i used it in the past but it's quite unstable and it will crash your browser now and then while surfing the net :(
Well, the point is, version 0.8.0 was just released, and should be much more advanced and stable than previous ones. At least i haven't experienced a crash with it yet.
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so it's much better experience to browse the net without than with (well maybe it's me, i don't like moving things on the screen and flash stuff)
I also hate flash used for nothing, and menus, and advertisements, but that doesn't negate the fact that unfortunately quite much content only available with it.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:17 am 
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Well, the point is, version 0.8.0 was just released, and should be much more advanced and stable than previous ones. At least i haven't experienced a crash with it yet.
you're a lucky man! When i use firefox with gnash plugin my G4 1.33GHz goes 100% and firefox... is not usable.

What's your render method?
This is mine one:
Code:
[78%][H] acrux@hermes:~$ gnash --version
Gnash 0.8.0
Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General
Public License. For more information, see the file named COPYING.
Build options 0.8.0
Target:
Renderer: opengl GUI: gtk Media handler: ffmpeg

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:20 am 
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openSUSE factory has it as a package, and for the first time ever, it really seems to be stable. At least I did not experience any crashes in the past half an hour.
Code:
factory0613:~ # gnash --version
Gnash 0.8.0
Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General
Public License. For more information, see the file named COPYING.
Build options 0.8.0
Target:
Renderer: opengl GUI: gtk Media handler: gst
I checked a page full of flash files, and cpu usage stays below 50% on my 1Ghz Pegasos. Most, but not all flash animations play correctly. Short intorss are practically skipped over, before gnash could initialize...

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:27 am 
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I checked a page full of flash files, and cpu usage stays below 50% on my 1Ghz Pegasos. Most, but not all flash animations play correctly. Short intorss are practically skipped over, before gnash could initialize...
it sounds me really strange but cool!

Maybe my aggressive cpu optimizations or the media handler (ffmpeg vs. gst)...
btw, can you paste here the configure used to build it?
Here you're able to read my one:
Code:
# Description: GNU Flash movie player with Firefox plugins
# URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash
# Maintainer: CRUX PPC Team - http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk
# Depends on: zlib, boost, gtk, gtkglext, libjpeg, sdl, sdl_mixer, libxml2, libmad, firefox

name=gnash
version=0.8.0
release=1
source=(http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$name/$version/$ ... on.tar.bz2)

build() {
cd $name-$version
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gnu-ld \
--with-plugindir=/usr/lib/firefox/plugins \
--enable-write --enable-jpeg --disable-klash \
--disable-docbook --disable-static --disable-nls

make
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/lib/firefox/plugins
make DESTDIR=$PKG install
rm -Rf $PKG/usr/share/locale
}
thanks!

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:40 am 
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Found this in the spec file:
Code:
%build
autoreconf -fi
%configure \
--disable-static \
--disable-ltdl-install \
--disable-rpath \
--enable-media=gst \
--enable-plugin \
--with-plugindir=%{_libdir}/browser-plugins
make
The original source rpm is available at http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distri ... -4.src.rpm

I also found a fun thing in the spec file: it has a special case, when the variable DISTRIBUTABLE is set to zero :-) In that case the openSUSE port also uses ffmpeg, which is not part of the distribution...

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