Re: Adobe flash player replacement?

[Mike Hore <mike_hore@aapt.net.au>]

I wrote:
> Mauro Lizaur wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Mike Hore wrote:
> > > Well of course there are versions for Windows, MacOSX Intel, MacOSX  
> > > PowerPC, and Linux Intel.  Naturally, no Linux PowerPC.  Does 
> > > anybody  know of a flash player raplacement I can download that will 
> > > let me  access the content?  I obviously should check out Gnash -- 
> > > will that do  it?  I probably don't need all the bells and whistles - 
> > > just enough to  let me access the content of web sites like the one I 
> > > mentioned.
> >
> > Gnash doesn't work very well (at least for me, it didn't).
> > May be you could try using swfdec which works pretty decent, also renders
> > youtube's player almost 100% correct.
>
> Thanks Mauro,  I'll give that a try and let the list know how it goes.

Sorry, I'm a bit of a Linux newbie -- I downloaded the tar.gz file and 
it decompressed into /tmp -- I can't work out how to install it from 
there.  The installation instructions talked about installing from 
source which isn't really where I want to go.

Cheers,  Mike.

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          Mike Hore        mike_hore@aapt.net.au
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