Re: Macromedia Flash player distribution

["David C. Weichert" <dcweichert@freenet.de>]

Am Freitag, den 12.08.2005, 08:31 +0200 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> [David C. Weichert]
> > We should probably consider life without Macromedia.
> 
> It is being considered all the time, but as far as I know, none of the
> free alternatives are able to run all the flash applications available
> today.  Until that is fixed, we can not ignore the macromedia
> implementation of flash. :(

I see little chance doing more than point to contrib if we want to do it
the Debian way.

> Please help the free flash implementation to improve by testing flash
> apps using them, and report back problems to the authors.

I just tested libflash-mozplugin (GPL Flash (SWF) Library) version
0.4.11-2 (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/libflash-mozplugin).
It's not half bad, though I think it will probably never be 100%
compatible to a product that does not use an open standard. I guess the
real issue with this software at the moment is not the displaying of
flash movies (it does that about right), but that it makes your browser
crash a lot :-(

Anyhow, I'm keeping an Eye on it and will tell you, if I see
improvements.


Regards
David