Re: Mozilla Flash Plugin (was Re: Mozilla Plugins)

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:51:44PM +0100, K. Reid Wightman wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 21:39, Bill Traynor wrote:
> > Isn't there a swf-player0.1.2-2 in Unstable that includes a Mozilla plugin?
> 
> Yes but it's the open source version, which lacks most of the
> functionality required by modern flash files (user interaction, sound,
> ability to play files, etc :)).  It would be preferable to see a version
> that worked, or at least had most of the flash 5/6 features.

Simple user interaction (pressing buttons, etc.) is scheduled for
0.2.0.  Sound is disabled in swf-player, since sound output issues
have not been resolved.  Sound works in the GStreamer plugin, and
thus in the GStreamer Media Player.

I'm surprised you don't complain about the random (and incessant)
crashes, which are fixed in CVS and will be part of the upcoming
0.1.3 release. :)

> Unless
> they did crazy hand-optimization for their x86 linux version, they
> should just have to recompile....

There's more likely to be Altivec optimization, as the author
typically works on a G4 Mac.



dave...