dose any body know how to get gnash working

rob.rice · 08-31-2008, 01:46 AM

there is a lot I don't like about adobe flash player
I don't like it wanting access to the microphone and web cam

so I would like to replace it with gnash

I know it will not be able to play all flash videos that the adobe flash player can
BUT
it is open source from GNU (I think GNU can be trusted) and not some pre compiled binary
that is doing what only adobe and god knows else (I don't trust out fits like adobe)

H_TeXMeX_H · 08-31-2008, 03:07 AM

I installed it successfully from source on slamd64, so it should work just fine for regular Slackware.

You'll need the boost libraries, which you can get from Alien Bob if you don't want to compile them:
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/boost/
You'll also need gtkglext: http://www.k-3d.org/gtkglext/Main_Page#Downloads
Then download gnash: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
Read the README, you'll need to tell it what renderer to use and what multimedia back-end (gstreamer or ffmpeg). You will need to install either gstreamer or ffmpeg.

rob.rice · 09-13-2008, 09:23 PM

./configure wants gstreamer installed

H_TeXMeX_H · 09-14-2008, 11:47 AM

The README says that you can either use gstreamer or ffmpeg, it says in there how:

Quote:

Gnash can be configured and built in three main variations. They
differ in the graphics and multimedia libraries used to display
flash files. The three variants are configured with the options:

--enable-renderer=opengl
--enable-renderer=cairo
or --enable-renderer=agg (default)

Only one can be specified. In addition, Gnash can use different multimedia
back-ends for sound and/or video:

--enable-media=GST Gstreamer (default)
or --enable-media=ffmpeg Ffmpeg/SDL

The "media" setting is independent of the "renderer" setting.

You will need the following development packages installed to
build the player with GTK support: glib, atk, pango, cairo, gtk2,
gtkglext.

You can build the player without GTK support, and these are the
dependent packages: OpenGL(libMesa), SDL.