Gnash 0.8.9 Released! Open Media Now! and the Gnash community are happy to announce the release of Gnash v0.8.9. Gnash the GNU Flash player is a free/libre SWF movie player, with all the source code released under GPLv3. Gnash is available as both a standalone player and also as a browser plugin for Firefox (and all other Gecko based browsers), Chromium and Konqueror. Currently Gnash has been ported to most GNU/Linux distros, embedded GNU/Linux, *BSD, non x86 architectures - ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and even 64 bit processors. And yes, Gnash plays Youtube!!
The last few months have been pretty eventful, and Gnash has made several important advances. Improvements since 0.8.8 release are: * Avoid drawing operations when the window is obscured, including when Gnash is used as a plugin, starting with Firefox 4.0 (GTK GUI). * NPAPI plugin: fix relative urls resolution in presence of <base> tag and "base" parameter; improved robustness and compatibility with chromium browser. Avoid blocking the parent process. * Support SWF with embedded ScreenVideo when using FFMPEG or gstreamer-ffmpeg >= 0.10.12. * Fixed playback of uncommon MPEG4 streams when using GStreamer. * Fix playback of SWF-embedded ADPCM audio when using Gstreamer. * Fix playback of SWF-embedded PCM audio when using FFMPEG. * Fixes for several crashes, with better automated testing of the entire ActionScript API for input sanitization. * Improved ActionScript performance processing, especially for interactive applications. * Improved SWF8 support with BitmapData.draw, BitmapData.loadBitmap, and other bitmap functions. * Re-entrant core libraries. Now Gnash is no longer dependent on a singleton Virtual Machine and Garbage Collector. * RTMP remoting support. * Support for PNG and GIF files in all DefineBitsJpeg tags; support for DefineBitsJpeg4 tags, and fix display of some GIFs with multiple records. * Restore support for mingw32. * dump-gnash: improved speed, sync and flexibility. * JPEG screenshot output. * Support for linear RGB interpolation mode in gradient fills. * Clipboard setting (GTK only). * More flash.geom.Rectangle functions. * Improved OpenBSD compatibility. You can grab the Gnash sources from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.9, or from Gnash Git using the release_0_8_9 branch. Experimental binary packages built by the Gnash team are also available at http://www.getgnash.org/packages, along with source snapshots. Binary packages for Debian or RPM based systems will be available from your GNU/Linux distribution, and from whatever BSD variant you are using. Questions about Gnash or offers of help can go to the developer's email list at gnash-...@gnu.org. Free software doesn't exist without your support, for donation information, go to http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32. _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
