[ubuntu-uk] Shockwave plug in alternative

[George MacLeod]

Yeah, I had a look at Gnash and installed through Synaptic but as Terence
says this only plays Flash and since Adobe already provide a Flash player
plug in for Linux I guess it's only use would be in playing stand alone
Flash files.

If you load a web page with a Flash component it plays just fine (if you
have the plugin) but if you do the same with a page with a Director
component you just get unknown plug in (application x-director).


On 29/08/2007, Tony Travis <ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Terence Simpson wrote:
> > Tony Travis wrote:
> >> Matthew Larsen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Man, where the heck am I living...
> >>>
> >> It's not perfect, but it does exist:
> >>
> >>      http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnash
> >>[...]
> > That's flash, not shockwave.
>
> Hello, Terence.
>
> It's a bit confusing because Gnash impliments:
>
>         MIME Type application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash
>
> Seems Adobe created Shockwave Flash, and 'Shockwave' for the purpose of
> 'confusion' marketing and, in my case at least, they succeeded ;-)
>
>         Tony.
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