A free Flash viewer is one of the last major gaps in GNU/Linux desktop functionality, so last week's news that Gnash, the free Flash player, had reached the stage where it could play YouTube and Lulu.tv videos seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately, it was.
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mattflaschen
16 years 43 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago
"The upshot is that you can never
"The upshot is that you can never be sure what will happen when you try to run a random file from YouTube or Lulu.tv in Gnash. Some files will run flawlessly, aside from being extremely slow to load, though if my experience is typical, those cases are in the minority." That seems strange, becuase all YouTube videos are essentially the same (a SWF wrapper around an FLV). But it's certainly clear that Gnash is not yet release-quality.
rek2
16 years 43 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago
gnash readme file also says that
gnash readme file also says that there are some type of files that still will not play... I guess the best thing someone can do is to RTFR.