Re: [Gnash] Gnash's problems.

[strk]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 04:12:32AM -0700, Carson wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I met some problems when trying to use Gnash. It would be highly appreciated 
> if someone can help answer or sort out any of the following problems.
> 
> 1. Gnash 0.83 was installed on my system (Ubuntu). But I cannot open 
> Youtube.com video files on Firefox. Is it possibly the problem of Youtube's 
> new player (called watch.swf) which is SWF9? I cannot open any other video 
> files from the video sharing websites whose player is SWF8 or SWF9. But I can 
> open those from www.lulu.tv, whose player is SWF7, with Gnash plug-in. In 
> addition, the Youtube.com video files can be opened through Gnash standalone 
> application successfully. 

I confirm watch.swf is SWF9 but gnash plays fine.
It's been reported to have problems when the 'startStopped' directive is set.
Also, gstreamer media handler might suffer from timing issues.

> 2. I am wondering if Gnash standalone application can open a flv file locally 
> without swf player. (e.g. gnash ./some_video.flv). When I run it, it always 
> fails with the reports:
> 10312:3063994976] 12:01:00 SECURITY: Checking security of URL 
> 'file:///home/user1/prj/gnash
> /build/bin/get_video.flv'
...
> Would it be possible to find a way to play flv files locally without using 
> swf player?

It would, if someone implements it. In trunk I added recognition of .flv files, 
so you'd
get a different error message, more instructive about it.

> 3. The SWF files of SWF8 and/or SWF9 opened through Gnash 0.8.3 can always 
> partially work, or even not  work at all. I am wondering to what extent Gnash 
> 0.83 supports SWF8 and SWF9 now. It seems to me only a little(20%) portion 
> SWF8 and SWF9 can work. 

Biggest SWF9 support limit is ABC interpreter. We're planning support for it.
SWF8 support should be fairly advanced. Please file bugs as  you find problems.

--strk;