Gnash

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Status

Gnash is still in beta release but plays "most" SWF files. The beta status refers to Gnash's stability and support for SWF version up to 8. Support for higher SWF versions is under heavy development, but many SWF9 movies work well.

Gnash runs as a standalone player and as a Mozilla, Firefox, Epiphany, Iceweasel and Konqueror plugin. It has been ported to many Unix variants and runs on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. The standalone player is also known to work on win32 and Darwin.

Last released version (0.8.6) plays streaming video sites such as YouTube.

Gnash does not currently support:

Nellymoser audio compression, i.e. any audio recorded from the microphone of an Adobe Flashplayer user.
Some ActionScript classes

Current focus

See roadmap in Release_0.8.7.

Gnash

Gnash glossary

Screenshots

Obtaining Source Code

Note: Checking out the dev branch from bazaar is the best way to review progress. Other methods of obtaining Gnash may be broken.

From Bazaar Version Control

The development branch

bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnash/trunk/

A particular release

bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnash/release_0_8_7

For more information, see Bazaar.

Tarballs

Official releases can be found in the subdirectory /gnu/gnash/ on your favourite GNU mirror.
Daily development snapshots are at: http://www.gnashdev.org/packages/snapshots/

Obtaining Pre-built Packages

Debian Family

Add the correct deb repository to your sources.list file, and then run "apt-get update".

Debian

deb http://www.getgnash.org/deb-repo lenny main

gNewSense

deb http://www.getgnash.org/deb-repo metad main

Ubuntu

deb http://www.getgnash.org/deb-repo ubuntu main

Other OSes

Fedora

Fedora users can set their systems up to use our yum repository of Gnash snapshots. Create a gnash.repo file, put this following text as the contents, and the copy the file to /etc/yum.repos.d/.

[gnash-snapshot]
name=Gnash Snapshot for Fedora $releasever
baseurl=http://getgnash.org/yum/fedora/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
enabled=1
#gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://getgnash.org/gnashdev.key

BSDs

For most BSD distributions, Gnash is in ports, and can be added via pkg_add.

Building

BuildMatrix: What combinations of Gnash bits are known to work on which platforms
BuildSizes: How much memory the various configuration options use
Building on Debian: How to build Gnash from source on Debian
Building on FreeBSD: How to build Gnash CVS on FreeBSD
Building on OpenBSD: How to build Gnash CVS on OpenBSD
Building on NetBSD: How to build Gnash CVS on NetBSD
Building on Mac OS X: How to build Gnash from source on Mac OS/X
Building on SGI IRIX: How to build Gnash from source on IRIX 6.5
Building on OpenMoko: How to build Gnash CVS on OpenMoko
Building on Gentoo: How to build Gnash CVS on Gentoo
Building for the OLPC: How to build Gnash bzr for an OLPC XO
Building dependant packages: How to cross compile the other stuff you need to build Gnash
Building Help: Misc building techniques, hacks, and hints
Building for Android: How to beat your phone into submission
Building for Nomad: How to cross compile Gnash for the Nomad rugged PDA
Debugging Autotools issues: How to debug configure scripts and Makefiles

Cross_building_with_mingw: How to cross compile with mingw32

Testing

haxe Tips and Tricks - surviving haxe testing.
Gnash online ActionScript Test Cases
Gnash testing framework - what it is, how to use, how to improve
Collections of Flash Movies on the net
Robustness testing - how to put Gnash on fire and check if it burns.
Video Lectures - Testing RTMP, which doesn't work yet.
The WaysToHelp page contains more info about how testing and reporting bugs.
Oprofile log Log from Oprofile of revno #11566, Oct 15, 2009.

If you find a bug, please let us know. Bug reports tells you how.

Running

Gnash Tips - tips for running Gnash

Targetting

If you plan to use Gnash as the main player for your SWF movies, or if you generally want Gnash to support your movies well, there are things you'd better keep in mind while producing them.

See TargettingGnash