Re: Adobe Alternatives

[Chad Perrin <perrin () apotheon com>]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 07:27:15PM +0200, metashling wrote:
> Have a look at gnash [1]. It's just in beta state and needs some time to
> catch up with all features Flash offers, but it's open source and should
> be portable to other architectures as well. 

Another option is Swfdec:

    http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Both of them have some shortcomings, and may fail to work with the Flash
on some sites.  One problem area is Flash videos, which unfortunately
includes YouTube -- but there are options for YouTube that don't require
the use of a Flash player plugin at all.  One example is to use a tool
called "youtube-dl" to download the video and a media player such as
MPlayer to play it:

    http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=766

I hope that helps.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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