Gnash

Gnash 0.8.6 Released!

Gnash is a GPLv3'd SWF movie player and browser plugin for Firefox, Mozilla, and
Konqueror. Gnash supports many SWF v7 features and ActionScript 2 & 3 classes.
with growing support for SWF versions 8-10. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux
distributions, embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors,
and 64 bit architectures. There are also standalone players for GNOME or KDE
based desktops.

Improvements since the 0.8.5 release are:

* TextSnapshot, Camera, Microphone, TextField and TextFormat
implemented.
* ASSetNative, ASSetNativeAccessor, ASconstructor implemented.
* New utilities for finding input devices for Camera and Microphone.
* PyGTK module support and Custom Gnash GTK widget.
* Better A/V synchronization.
* Various improvements to text handling and formatting.
* Code refactoring:
o large-scale refactoring of object and class creation for
improved AS compatibility,
o extension of native classes now works in many cases,
o more compatible and slimmer DisplayObject classes,
o improvements in parsing,
o general reduction of Garbage Collection resources,
o easier to implement new classes.
o new ActionScript 2 & 3 test suite.
o re-organization of all ActionScript classes into the proper
namespaces.
o Stubs added for all ActionScript 3 classes.
* Fix bitmap smoothing handling in AGG renderer.
* Native and built-in functions properly separated, more native
functions added.
* AmigaOS4 support (gui and sound handler)
* Fixes to XMLSocket crash and event order.
* Performance improvement for SDL gui.
* Corrected timing of various AS events, fixing various SWFs that
rely on them.
* Rudimentary AVM2 implementation.
* Fixed bugs found since since the 0.8.5 release.
* Improved RTMP support in Cygnal.
o plugin support for server side scripts.
o refactored network engine.

AMIGAOS specific notes

Whith Gnash is included a python script that allow you to play a youtube video
inside the video Player

To use the script just use it passing the video movie you want to play. F.e.

python youtube.py -m XXXXXXXXX

where XXXXXXXXX is the id of youtube video

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* WATCH OUT! ACTUALLY THE STREAMING FROM YOUTUBE IS SLOW!!!!!!!!! *
* THIS VERSION OF GNASH IS A BETA!!! DON'T EXPECT TO BE BUG FREE! *
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To use Gnash, just create a folder wherever you want and copy the files into.
in your user-startup add the following line:

ASSIGN Gnash: XXX:Gnash 

where XXX is drive where you have created the Gnash directory (this could be
changed in the future)

To run the player from shell just use:

aos4-gnash YOURSWFFILE.SWF 

to test your swf files

There is no plugin of course