>________________________________
>From: Stanisław Findeisen <s...@eisenbits.com>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:59 AM
>Subject: SWF (Adobe Flash) support
>
>Hi!
>
>Is it possible to play Adobe Flash files from, for example, YouTube.com
>without non-free software?
>
>This is what I have:
>
>$ dpkg-query --list | grep -i -E 'flash|gnash|swf'
>ii  gnash                                0.8.4-3~lenny1             free
>SWF movie player
>ii  gnash-common                         0.8.4-3~lenny1             free
>SWF movie player - common files/librari
>ii  libswfdec-0.6-90                     0.6.8-1                    SWF
>(Macromedia Flash) decoder library
>ii  mozilla-plugin-gnash                 0.8.4-3~lenny1             free
>SWF movie player - Plugin for Mozilla a
>ii  swfdec-gnome                         2.22.2-2
>Tools to play SWF files (Macromedia Flash) o
>ii  swfdec-mozilla                       0.6.0-5
>Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macromedia Fla
>
>However I am unable to play YouTube.com videos in Iceweasel 3.0.6. I
>even tried downloading one to the filesystem and running gnash on it,
>but it only displays a black rectangle. :-(
>
>What is the Debian recommended way, if any, to play SWF files?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-- 



You have a couple of options.  Have you tried  Linterna Magica? 
http://e-valkov.org/linterna-magica/   It is libre and it will help you play 
youtube with all free software.  It doesn't seem to work if the youtube is 
embedded in another web page.  They claim that it works on many flash websites, 
but I have had mixed results.

If you upgrade to squeeze, you can use Epiphany Browser to watch html5 video 
from youtube.com/html5   This doesn't seem to work 100% of the time, but maybe 
you will have better results.

The version of gnash in squeeze is quickly becoming outdated.  It hasn't worked 
for me in youtube lately (youtube always seems to be changing things)  and in 
other sites it doesn't work.  


You could build the latest gnash from source.  I did that when I was using 
gnewsense and it worked.  

Cheers,

Steven


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