"What follows is a list of the APIs that the current Linux Flash Player 9 development version is using. I debated whether it was appropriate to publish this information. Then I remembered that anyone who knows what they're doing should be able to figure this stuff out by themselves anyway once the final Player is released."
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Member since:2005-06-30
To my knowledge, FFMPEG can encode movies in the Sorenson Spark format, used by Flash 7. Given it can encode, I guess its counterpart, libavcodec, can decode...
As long as gnash can use gstreamer (since I doubt the FSF would add support for a closed format in a GNU project), I am pretty sure it will be able to support it -- once it's in a usable state, anyway.
Member since:2005-12-31
What exactly is a "proprietary flash video"?
Anyways, I think you should read the GPL again. To violate it, a player would have to link against code contained in a flash animation (definition of linking is rather vague in the GPL; especially visible in this case) *and* you'd have to distribute the linked whole to others (you're not going to do that). So I don't think there'd be a problem.
Member since:2005-12-31
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2005-12-13
he said 'good' It doesn't matter how good gnash gets it'll never play proprietary flash video (google/youtube) and lets be honest thats what most people want it for in the first place.