Flash Bounty Progress

Wednesday, 25 March 2009 14:07

Adrian Panasiuk has been steadily making progress on the Flash Bounty. He has the Mozilla plugin working with BeZilla, and I was able to play a YouTube video, as well as play a flash file on one of my websites (the header). Although the gnash player needs gcc4, the plugin itself can be built for BeZilla-gcc2.

*Note, Adrian is currently looking for testers and feedback... The package containing the binaries can be downloaded:

Here, with usage and installation instructions here.

See the screenshots.

Comments

0 # skarmiglione 2009-03-25 20:03

WoW O_o!! excellent congratulations thanks

really good :-)

really grat!!

0 # Very cool — TQH 2009-03-25 22:13

Especially since the widget handling of plugins in Mozilla in its current form was guesswork on my part.

0 # TQH 2009-03-25 22:14

Bah, what's the point of titles when they don't show. Anyway. It was supposed to say 'Very cool' first.

0 # Meanwhile 2009-03-25 23:00

Very good news, great!
Thank you, Adrian Panasiuk !

0 # Adek336 2009-03-26 07:36

Hah, pretty decent job for a guesswork :-)

http://adek336.republika.pl/haiku-gnash/ get the .zip file (make sure you download the right file, pkgsall-2009-03-26.zip !), reboot, and follow instructions from site. I hope you will find the result pretty useable :-)

0 # karl 2009-03-26 07:40

Adrian, I noticed dump-gnash was executed when testing the release. Is this for debugging? Would it speed up if this was disabled?

thx

0 # Adek336 2009-03-26 07:55

No, that's the actual player which feeds data to the plugin. That .zip file should feel more responsive than the previous file - the player gets a subnormal priority :-)

0 # umccullough 2009-03-26 10:13

So...I don't wanna rain on any parades here, but is that a quad-core machine with nearly 100% cpu usage just to view a site with flash on it?

Yikes.

0 # karl 2009-03-26 10:22

It's a virtualized environment on my Mac Pro.

0 # MaxOS 2009-03-26 13:01

For CPU usage, see screenshot:

c.wrzuta.pl/wi967/66be44be001e799a49cc16c2/screenshot1?type=i&key=voZi8jKOAD&ft=f

0 # MaxOS 2009-03-26 13:04

Usually between 40 to 90% for core.

0 # Titles Fixed — karl 2009-03-26 14:26

@TQH, titles should be fixed now.

0 # koki 2009-03-26 20:14

Will this work on a gcc2 build with the alternative libs?

0 # Adek336 2009-03-26 23:12

Yes, although you need BeZilla-gcc4 as this package has a gcc4 build of the plugin.

0 # TQH 2009-03-27 01:27

@Karl thanks. Fast work :-)

0 # koki 2009-03-27 05:43

> Yes, although you need BeZilla-gcc4 as this package has a gcc4 build of the plugin.

It would be nice if you released a gcc2 plugin so that the package would work out of the box in a gcc2 alt libs Haiku build. That would lower the barrier to those who would like to play with the gnash in Haiku and you would probably get more feedback. ;-)

Very nice work, btw! :-)

0 # Adek336 2009-03-27 11:08

Here it is : http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~ap262965/haiku-gnash/libgnashplugin-BeZilla-gcc2-2009-03-26.so . You need to put it in ~/config/settings/Mozilla/plugins/ and remove the other libgnashplugin.so file. Same instructions on setting attributes apply. Have fun :-)

0 # koki 2009-03-28 13:31

Adek336 said:
> Here it is...

Thanks! Unfortunately, my attempt to create a hybrid build failed miserably and I completely messed up my Ubuntu installation. Sigh... I will try to recreate my Haiku tree, but it will take a while.

0 # skarmiglione 2009-03-29 13:09

yeah meto messed up the tree...why is so hard get a compilation of the hibryd :sad:

is so sad

0 # MaxOS 2009-03-29 13:24

Haiku gcc4 hybrid: rapidshare.de/files/46042268/haiku.7z.html

0 # skarmiglione 2009-03-29 13:26

404

(http://www.haikuware.com/rapidshare.de/files/46042268/haiku.7z.html)
You are not authorised to view this resource.

0 # karl 2009-03-29 13:37

weird how haikuware was added before, but i'm sure this was meant:

rapidshare.de/files/46042268/haiku.7z.html

0 # Need clarification — koki 2009-03-31 08:56

I made a GCC4 Haiku build to test gnash, but I need some clarification. The instructions say that "OpenSSL optional package installed" is required, but AFAICT there is no OpenSSL package for GCC4 Haiku. How do you meet this requirement?

Also, your binary package from March 26 here...

http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~ap262965/haiku-gnash/pkgsall-2009-03-26.zip

...unzips to allpk/home/ instead of /home.

0 # Adek336 2009-03-31 09:43

> there is no OpenSSL package for GCC4

Oh, sorry, I didn't know this one nor did I do proper testing on a gcc4 build. You have to build a gcc4 gcc2 Haiku image where the openssl-gcc2 will be used :-)