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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Runs on debian?<br><br>> Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 17:26:22 -0600<br>> From: s@mnoble.net<br>> To: nmglug@lists.nmglug.org<br>> Subject: Re: [nmglug] Approved coreboot AMD mobo<br>> <br>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:50:49PM -0600, Arlo Barnes wrote:<br>> > Once at a meeting I mentioned that I thought I had in the past run a free<br>> > version of Flash, and you said that the only free Flash you knew of was<br>> > Gnash (which I misheard as Ganesh, which itself would be a cool name for a<br>> > package).<br>> <br>> There have been several projects which can masquerade as a flash plugin.<br>> <br>> AFAIK, gnash is the most popular, and as you mention is actually quite<br>> good at doing the kind of stuff flash was used for when gnash was a new<br>> project. But very often fails for joe website's little player.swf that<br>> plays some .flv video file. <br>> <br>> There are also at least swfdec, and lightspark. (I seem to recall one<br>> with "game" in the name somewhere too, and some of these may be forks of<br>> each other.)<br>> <br>> I'm a fan and supporter of gnash, but if you want to watch video online,<br>> I recommend not installing any flash plugin at all. Most sites use some<br>> kind of javascript to try and guess what to serve you, and having gnash<br>> installed seems to just get you a lot more "please upgrade your flash"<br>> messages and links to adobe web sites. The best stuff I've come across<br>> for playing video on the type of sites that might want you to use flash,<br>> has been the ViewTube* (and ViewTubePlus**) userscripts for javascript<br>> replacing plugins like Greasemonkey.<br>> <br>> Another good trick is to install UserAgentString switching plugin, that can<br>> report your browser is one that the webmaster doesn't expect will have<br>> flash, like an ithing.<br>> <br>> > I installed Chromium just because some minor things in the interface<br>> > are nice to have, and Firefox/Iceweasel does not have them; Chromium<br>> > comes with a plugin called 'Pepper' Flash -<br>> <br>> It looks like this is just instrumentation around the same non-free<br>> flash.<br>> <br>> *http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/87011<br>> **http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/159658<br>> <br>> -- <br>> sam<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nmglug mailing list<br>> nmglug@lists.nmglug.org<br>> http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org<br> </div></body>
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