Gnash Project

A recent post on OpenGeoData blog presents Potlatch 2:
"Fully rewritten in ActionScript 3".

ActionScript 3 !? Wait, that means NO more access for free software users!

Gnash is a GPLv3'd SWF movie player and browser plugin for Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror. Gnash supports many SWF v7 features and ActionScript 2 & 3 classes. with growing support for SWF versions 8-10. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors, and 64 bit architectures. There are also standalone players for GNOME or KDE based desktops.

Improvements since the 0.8.5 release are:

Open Media Now has launched a "summer of code" project for Gnash to implement a large chunk of the ActionScript 3 class library needed for swf v9/10 & AIR support. Some projects you can throw bodies at. :-)
For more information, try the Project Updates page.

Ever tried editing the free map of the world with Gnash ?
Surprise: it works !

Only, if you want to trace roads starting from satellite photos
you have to wait a lot for the downloads to complete, and in the
meanwhile Gnash is non-responsive making you wonder if it'll ever
complete or crashed...

Well, you can now donate for dropping that limitation :)

Press release: http://linuxpr.com/releases/11332.html
Donation page: http://linuxfund.org/projects/gnash/

I've recently been playing with porting Gnash to Android, which turns out to be more complex than it should be. I've ported Gnash to several other cell phones, but the C++ support for Android is totally crippled. I've almost got a full C++ toolchain working, I can compile Gnash all the way, but there is a runtime problem still C++ initialization. More details on life with Android on the
wiki page .

Other than the problems with C++, Android is an interesting platform. The qemu based emulator works well with the adb shell, to make it easy to test your code.

Gnash 0.8.5 Released!

The fourth beta release of Gnash has just been made at version
0.8.5. Gnash is a GPLv3'd SWF movie player and browser plugin for
Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror. Gnash supports many SWF v7 features
and ActionScript 2 classes. with growing support for SWF v8 and
v9. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded
GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors, and 64 bit
architectures. There are also standalone players for GNOME or KDE
based desktops.

Improvements since the 0.8.4 release are:

* Cygnal media server alpha release!
* New MIT-SHM and XVideo support for better performance.

It's about time... After bitching about the lack of RTMP specifications last year when Adobe released their ActionScript specs, they just announced they'll be releasing RTMP specs sometime this year. This announcement is pretty meaningless to the Gnash team, as we already wrote our own docs (Gnash RTMP docs) over a year ago, and have both client side and server side RTMP support in the Gnash source tree, but it's still a nice gesture on Adobe's part.

Adobe's Press release

On December 15 the Linux Fund announced support for the Gnash/RTMP project.

See the Linux PR announce and the project details.

I'm keeping track of bugs in the 0.8.4 release. Obviously "fixed" cannot mean that they've been fixed in 0.8.4, which is immutable. Instead, it means that they've been fixed in bzr.