Need Open Source alternative of Adobe flash plugins

Graham Todd grahamtodd2 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 10:31:58 UTC 2011


On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:41:13 -0400
wayward4now <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/18/2011 01:28 PM, Md Ashickur Rahman Noor wrote:
> > Thanks, I will try and inform you.
> It will all end in tears. <chuckles> Ric
> 
> 

I would also add klash (for KDE users - gnash is designed around Gnome
libraries).

As has been said before, none of those mentioned is likely to work
100%.  This is a case of Flash not only being proprietary but
applications and extensions being built for the Adobe Flash code.

However, there are exceptions to this. Minitube, for instance,
downloads and runs U-tube videos with (I am assured) fully open source
code, as it runs its own Flash-compatible code which is in-built. (I
would suggest that a piece of code bearing any resemblance to the Flash
code, could (probably) only be (legally) used if it was part of a more
extensive application, and then it couldn't just be the Flash code
dropped into another application without alteration).

Perhaps the better way would be to set out the reasons why you want to
use an alternative to Adobe Flash, and there might be an application we
can suggest to do the same job.

URL for Minitube: http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube

--Graham Todd




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