Status: Closed - successful
Target: N/A
Developer: Adrian Panasiuk
Deadline: March 1st, 2009

Adobe's Flash implementation is everywhere in the internet these days. Once considered a nuisance to many (probably still) for consuming too much bandwidth or making advertisments intruisive, now Flash has almost become necessary as it makes its way into audio, video and game content on websites.

Being commercial and closed source propietary software, Adobe will likely only support platforms with a strong userbase (i.e Linux, Mac and Windows), leaving smaller niche operating systems (i.e Haiku) to fend for themselves.

Thankfully, there are two open source initiatives that are trying to support Flash content - Gnash and swfdec.

This bounty would entail the developer to port either of these to Haiku.

Technical Information

From Adrian:

"With a modern version of the GNU Compiler Collection, porting gnash is now a pretty straightforward task. After making gnash compile, I will see to it that the stand-alone player works; then the Firefox plugin. Finally, I'll make a package so it's not necessary to compile gnash on one's own."

Adobe recently released specifications for SWF. This may help increase the development speed and or quality of Gnash or swfdec.

Haiku developer Michael Lotz ported an earlier version of Gnash with some great success, however discontinued his efforts for various reasons . He is willing to donate the code to any developer wishing to continue porting Gnash...

Relevant information

Gnash
swfdec