<div dir="ltr">Thanks for hashing this out. Very good stuff,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Sam Noble <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s@mnoble.net" target="_blank">s@mnoble.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">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>
</div>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>
<div class=""><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>
</div>It looks like this is just instrumentation around the same non-free<br>
flash.<br>
<br>
*<a href="http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/87011" target="_blank">http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/87011</a><br>
**<a href="http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/159658" target="_blank">http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/159658</a><br>
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sam<br>
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