Since Flash developers often want to take advantage of the latest features, this failure rate is perhaps to be expected, and it is not a particular deterrent against using Gnash for most users. On Best Flash Sites, one in three files I tried failing to play. However, if you are more adventurous in your viewing of Flash files, your results will probably be more mixed. Both these sites receive heavy traffic and have an interest in making their content as accessible as possible to the largest audience. A dozen or so videos from each of YouTube and all ran without problems. To find out, I installed the Gnash plugin and Klash, and tried to access a number of commonly used sites. But what, exactly, do the limitations mean for those users who would prefer to use Gnash so that they can run a philosophically free desktop? In addition, "Gnash supports the majority of Flash opcodes up to SWF v9, and a wide sampling of ActionScript classes for SWF v8."Įven if you are not familiar with Flash scripting, clearly Gnash does not yet offer the same level of functionality as the latest version of Adobe's Flash player. Testing the betaThe user manual for the beta describes it as focused mainly on support for Flash 7, "with better SWF v8 and v9 support than earlier versions." About 80% of ActionScript 2.0 classes are implemented, including "all of the most heavily used ones," and a start has been made on support for ActionScript 3. Gnash also comes with a trio of commands for debugging: the general verbose switch ( -v)) and switches for how the play handles Flash actions ( -va) or parses files ( -vp). However, if you choose, you can run Gnash with parameters to scale the video, to set a video's exact height and width, or to loop a video continuously. The two plugins work seamlessly, and using the desktop player is generally as simple as entering the command gnash followed by a file path, or gnash -u followed by an URL. Gnash comprises the Gnash desktop player, the Gnash plugin for Firefox (which also works with Epiphany and other Mozilla-based browsers), and Klash, a plugin for Konqueror.
It is also quickly finding its way into the repositories of major distributions, including Debian Unstable and Ubuntu 8.0.4. Version 0.8.2 is available from the Get Gnash site as source code, or as a package for Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Windows.
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