is there a slackbuild for gnash yet

rob.rice · 09-30-2009, 03:23 AM

I just reinstalled and would rather not have the tracking cookies and only god and adobie knows what else that comes along with adobie flash player
so what's the state of gnash on slack

H_TeXMeX_H · 09-30-2009, 05:10 AM

I don't see a slackbuild anywhere, however it works just fine on slackware64 13.0. If someone does make a slackbuild I wonder how it would be configured. I personally configure it to use opengl renderer and ffmpeg. But by default it uses agg and gstreamer.

Trickie · 09-30-2009, 05:14 AM

Don't know about slackware but I built gnash from source and it's far from perfect. On average it will play about half of the youtube videos with which it's presented. To be fair, though, I haven't updated to the latest version -- mine is probably about six month's old. I can't tell you the exact version number as I'm not sitting in front of it at the moment.

It is a project in development though so I expect it to improve dramatically over time. The best thing is to give it a try.

Richard

H_TeXMeX_H · 09-30-2009, 06:13 AM

Well for me it plays ALL youtube videos, but only about 50% of other videos.

stormtracknole · 09-30-2009, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Well for me it plays ALL youtube videos, but only about 50% of other videos.

For a second there I thought you were going to say "50% of the time, it works every time". Heh...sorry...I shall crawl back into my hole.

gegechris99 · 09-30-2009, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by rob.rice

I just reinstalled and would rather not have the tracking cookies and only god and adobie knows what else that comes along with adobie flash player

There's a simple method to get rid of these annoyances, look at this article from Woodsman:

Preventing Adobe Flash Cookies

Lufbery · 09-30-2009, 08:14 AM

I built Gnash from source and wasn't very happy with it either. Hopefully it will improve with time.

Regards,

sahko · 09-30-2009, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by gegechris99

There's a simple method to get rid of these annoyances, look at this article from Woodsman:

Preventing Adobe Flash Cookies

Creating those two files crashed firefox all the time here. Some people in ##slackware suggested pointing .macromedia to /dev/null instead but haven't tried it.

gegechris99 · 09-30-2009, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by sahko

Creating those two files crashed firefox all the time here. Some people in ##slackware suggested pointing .macromedia to /dev/null instead but haven't tried it.

I never had such crash more than one month after the creation of those empty files (ex: YouTube, Dailymotion). I'm using Slackware 13.0 32-bit architecture.

sahko · 09-30-2009, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by gegechris99

I never had such crash more than one month after the creation of those empty files (ex: YouTube, Dailymotion). I'm using Slackware 13.0 32-bit architecture.

I tried it again, and this time i have no crashes. I cant explain it. But im glad it works. I'll keep the files and see how it goes.