Gnash

Gnash will certainly be better in six months for our next release. It already has one major new feature - LocalConnection support - and RTMP video streaming is also planned. But as Gnash is currently unfunded, many important features that could ... [More] easily be added will be left out. Here is an incomplete list of things that I can improve or newly implement in Gnash in a relatively short space of time (between 1 and 4 weeks): Reliable text handling (HTML text, text formatting, positioning etc). Currently this is not correct and fails in many cases. BitmapData functions. rendering to an internal buffer for use in ActionScript. This is used for image handling in many SWF8 movies. RTMP. A basic implementation for video streaming and remoting should be ready for 0.8.8. But ironing out bugs and getting a really high-quality implementation will take longer. read more [Less]

The 0.8.7 release of Gnash has just been made. Gnash is a GPLv3'd SWF movie player and browser plugin for Firefox, all other Gecko based browsers, Chrome, and Konqueror. Gnash supports many SWF v8 features and ActionScript 2 classes. with growing ... [More] support for SWF v10 and ActionScript 3. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC), and 64 bit architectures. There are also standalone players for GNOME or KDE based desktops. Improvements since the 0.8.6 release are: * Automatic and spontaneous screenshots support in all GUIs read more [Less]

The 0.8.7 release of Gnash has just been made. Gnash is a GPLv3'd SWF movie player and browser plugin for Firefox, all other Geeko based browsers, Chrome, and Konqueror. Gnash supports many SWF v8 features and ActionScript 2 classes. with growing ... [More] support for SWF v10 and ActionScript 3. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC), and 64 bit architectures. There are also standalone players for GNOME or KDE based desktops. Improvements since the 0.8.6 release are: * Automatic and spontaneous screenshots support in all GUIs read more [Less]

Gnash 0.8.7 has been released. You can get it from a GNU FTP or HTTP mirror, or from getgnash.org. Improvements and features in Gnash since the last release are: Automatic and spontaneous screenshots in all GUIs. Significant memory savings in ActionScript execution. Non-blocking load of bitmaps and movies. read more

This week I implemented the LocalConnection ActionScript class in Gnash. It is too late for Gnash 0.8.7, which should be released imminently. But the six months of testing before the next release are certainly a good thing where this code is ... [More] concerned. LocalConnection allows the player to communicate with other players or instances using shared memory. It is even used for communication between AS2 and AS3 loaded in the same SWF, since they can't otherwise talk to each other. read more [Less]

The next version of Gnash has the ability to save screenshots in PNG format. You can either do this through a GUI (Ctrl-O) or by specifying frames on the command line. For the command line, there are two new options: --screenshot and --screenshot-file. read more

I've taken advantage of Gnash's new screenshot ability and made some screenshots of various movies running in what will become Gnash 0.8.7. See the screenshots here. read more

blip.tv playing in Gnash 0.8.7.

An interactive geometric animation from levitated.net playing in Gnash 0.8.7.

A geometric animation from the excellent levitated.net playing in Gnash 0.8.7.