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Gnash Flash player reaches milestone, not destination

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMT
Gnash, the free software Flash player, has released its first beta. The new release is a milestone for both the project and the GNU/Linux desktop, which remains dependent on the proprietary Adobe player for handling Flash files (.swf). Although Flash support is not complete in version 0.8.2, Gnash has now reached the point where it is usable for the most common everyday purposes, such as watching videos on YouTube -- a point that Gnash was exaggeratedly reported as having reached last June. However, in many other ordinary circumstances, Gnash's success remains hit or miss.

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LIGHTSPARK(1)						      General Commands Manual						     LIGHTSPARK(1)

NAME

       lightspark - a free Flash player

SYNOPSIS

       lightspark  [--url|-u  http://loader.url/file.swf] [--disable-interpreter|-ni] [--enable-jit|-j] [--log-level|-l 0-4] [--parameters-file|-p
       params-file] [--version|-v] file.swf

DESCRIPTION

       Lightspark is a free, modern Flash Player implementation, this documents the options accepted by the standalone version of the program.

       The player is currently in Beta, support for any particular SWF file is not guaranteed

       You might wish to see the project website at http://lightspark.sf.net or our technical blog at http://allievi.sssup.it/techblog

OPTIONS

       --url loader.url/file.swf, -u loader.url/file.swf

	      Pretends to be loading the file from an url

       --disable-interpreter, -ni

	      Disable the ActionScript interpreter

       --enable-jit, -j

	      Enable the ActionScript JIT compilation engine

       --log-level 0-4, -l 0-4

	      Sets the verbosity of the output, the default is 2

       --parameters-file params-file, -p params-file

	      Load flash parameters from file. Every odd line will be interpreted as a parameter name, with the following one as the value.

       --profiling-output profiling-file, -o profiling-file

	      Output profiling data to profiling-file in a callgrind/KCachegrind compatible format

       --version, -v

	      Shows lightspark version and exits.

AUTHOR

       lightspark was written by Alessandro Pignotti.

       This manual page was written by Jacopo Corbetta <j.corbetta@sssup.it>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

								   May 29, 2010 						     LIGHTSPARK(1)

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