[Gnash-dev] Many thanks for gnash

[Chris Lingard]

As a new user of gnash, a big thank you for all your work.

Built the version gnash-0.8.0, but was unable to try it out thoroughly, 
due to other work.

I have now built the cvs version, and it works much better than flash 
with nswrapper  here.

I build systems from scratch, the cpu is an Athlon 64

I like KDE, and KDE + 64 bit + flash == no sound.  I am pleased to 
report that gnash sound does work.

All the static stuff is OK,  with video I found the following using firefox

yourtube.com   The music video work complete with sound.

reuters.com    The advert that they sometimes put on their front page 
works with sound; the video nearly work, they stop at "Loading Video" 
with a message from firefox:

25726] 20:00:51: DEBUG: video_stream_instance 0x9e8940 ctor
25726] 20:00:51: UNIMPLEMENTED: sharedobject_getlocal
25726] 20:00:51: DEBUG: bool gnash::XML::load(const gnash::URL&) enter
25726] 20:00:51: SECURITY: Load from host web.lightningcast.net granted 
(default).
25726] 20:00:51: Loading XML file from url: 
'http://web.lightningcast.net/servlets/getPlaylist?ver=2.0&client=fc1.6.5&fv=GSH 
8,0,99,0&crlen=t&nwid=15040&content=http://int1.fp.sandpiper.net/reuters/t_assets/20070904/52d9a1fe17f85da24581cd4fabccb006fcfc30ed.flv&format=Video-Flash-300-320x240&regions=StandardBanner&uid=740558556&level=TopNews:General&audit=param&resp=SMIL'
25726] 20:00:52: Text node value consists in blanks only, discarding
25726] 20:00:57: DEBUG: virtual gnash::XML::~XML() enter

cnn.com   Does not work, SWF8?

msnbc.com  This is bad, it takes my 2Gb memory, and nearly 2Gn swap, and 
makes the machine a bit twitchy, but no video or sound comes out before 
I chicken out.

The dependencies were a bit difficult to work out, as I have no 
"development packages", the headers are installed when the package is 
compiled, tested and installed.

So far the only permutation that I have tried is

./configure --prefix=/usr   --enable-renderer=opengl 
--with-plugindir=/usr/lib/firefox/plugins    --enable-media=ffmpeg 
--enable-gui=gtk

But a great achievement already, that it is working so well, 64 bit and 
built from source.

Chris Lingard