[ubuntu-nz] Adobe Flash, Swfdec, or Gnash?

[Johann Schoonees]

Thanks for that.  The kids would need interactivity for their games,
including the Mathletics they do for school.

Now you mention it, I also remember Gnash not doing much, also a while
ago...

Josch

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 08:58 +1200, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
> For basic playback (youtube and simple animations) swfdec is not too
> bad. It also includes save-to-file features that the Adobe player
> doesn't have.
> 
> For interactive flash, eg games only the non-free Adobe flash player will work.
> 
> Last time I tried Gnash I found it to be completely useless. That was
> a while ago, so might only be mostly useless by now..
> 
> 2009/7/22 Johann Schoonees <johann at schoonees.org.nz>:
> > Just completing the usual media plugins after a new Jaunty installation,
> > and I notice the official doc
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/musicvideophotos/C/video-playback.html#video-playback-flash saying that the non-proprietary players are "more stable (cause fewer problems) than the official player" which slightly surprised me.  Which one would you choose?
> >
> >