Gnash is a Flash movie player and Web browser plugin for Firefox, Mozilla, Konqueror, and Opera. Gnash supports many SWF v7 features and ActionScript3 classes. Gnash supports the majority of Flash opcodes up to SWF version 7, and a wide sampling of ActionScript classes for SWF version 8.5. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86-processors, and 64-bit architectures. There is also a standalone player for GNOME or KDE based desktops.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release changes "Flash player" to "SWF player" throughout to accommodate Adobe trademarks. The popular SWF Twitter badge now renders correctly. Support for movies embedding multiple sound streams has been fixed. Support for loading PNG and GIF images has been added. Support for writing RGB/RGBA PNG images and JPEG images has been added. This release works with the Potlatch OpenStreetMap editor. There is a new 'flvdumper' utility for analyzing FLV video files. XPI packaging support for Mozilla and Firefox has been added.
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10-14-2008
