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Interview With Linux Flash Player's Lead Engineer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-everyone-loves-flash dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "Ryan Stewart of ZDNet has an interview with Mike Melanson, the lead engineer behind Adobe's upcoming Flash Player 9 for Linux. It covers what the plans are for the player, what kinds of things won't be in the Linux player that are in the other players, and ways to give Adobe input on the Linux player."

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  1. Open source player. by phoebe · · Score: 5, Informative
    It does not sound like he has heard of Gnash:

    Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Till now it has only been possible to play flash movies with proprietary software. While there are a few other free flash players, none supports anything higher than SWF v4 at best. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports many SWF v7 features.

    Features

    1. Runs standalone: Gnash can run standalone to play flash movies.
    2. Firefox plugin: Gnash can also run as a plugin from within Firefox.
    3. SWF v7 compliant: Gnash can play many current flash movies.
    4. XML Message server: Gnash also supports an XML based message system as is documented in the Flash Format specification.
    5. High Quality Output: Gnash uses OpenGL for rendering the graphics.
    6. Free Software: Gnash is 100% free software.