I Guess Gnash doesn't work after all

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 22:20:29 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:48 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
>> Jim wrote:
>>> Andrew Farris wrote:
>>>> Jim wrote:
>>>>> I installed Gnash in FC9-Preview and it doesn't work on Youtube or 
>>>>> Yahoo, It shows in Firefox as a Flash Plugin.
>>>> swfdec should work.
>>>>
>>> What is swfdec, how does that work, I ain't never heard of it ?
>> A flash rendering library, see swfdec.freedesktop.org or yum info swfdec, yum 
>> search swfdec will show you the packages.  Supposedly its working well for 
>> youtube for many people (it has some minor issues for me like videos playing 
>> only halfway through).
> 
> yum install swfdec swfdec-mozilla
> 
> Firefox now doesn't complain about not having Flash, however I have yet
> to find a video that actually plays (I don't have any of the Fluendo
> stuff).

Right, you still do need the codecs.

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