Open Source Flash Players
May 26th, 2008
I decided after reading this article, I decided to try out SWFDec instead of Adobe Flash Player. I shied away from Gnash early on since it didn’t support many newer features of Flash, and it didn’t work with YouTube. But, apparently, SWFDec works with YouTube (I just tried it), and according to the article above, my browser may use less resources now. We’ll see.
Update
Well, it turns out it crashes on my TheSixtyOne player on the right! Time to try Gnash…
Update 2
Experiment over. The OSS Flash solutions completely fail at playing the flash audio on the right. Once they get just a little more compatible, I’ll try again.
Hey,
I hope you filed that crasher bug. If you didn’t: It has been fixed since swfdec 0.6.4, but Ubuntu unfortunately didn’t upgrade the packages yet. We take crashers very seriously.
But even with that crasher fixed, Swfdec 0.6 still can’t load MP3 files. I can assure you it’ll work in Swfdec 0.8 though, because it’s what I’m implementing just at this moment. :)
Ben:
You rock. I might be willing to contribute depending on what the code is written in. I’m not bad with C, which is what I assume it is. Are you on IRC?