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Re: Lightspark 0.4.6.1 released

Angelo — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:10:53 -0000

I was waiting for the Lightspark release. I just needed somewhat supporting ActionScript 3.0 and have a Mozilla compatible plugin. To me, Lightspark is the right thing to discover.

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 — Bacchus released

Rodriguezemmanuelrex — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:48:27 -0000

Does lightspark have Stage3D (Molehill) capability?

Re: The misterious Web Proxy Automatic Discovery (WPAD) Italian exploit — Part I

Eric Lawrence — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:49:39 -0000

>On certain buggy versions,

Can you be more specific? Would that be "Unpatched IE5.0"?

Re: The misterious Web Proxy Automatic Discovery (WPAD) Italian exploit — Part III

Susana025 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:11:43 -0000

Using a web proxy can be a good way to protect your personal information and privacy in general, those who may have bad intentions on the internet. But as any proxy server gives you more protection than no proxy at all, you should look into any Web proxy before use to ensure it gives you all the protection you need.

all thinks web proxy

Re: Lightspark 0.4.2.3 bug fix release

apignotti — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:27:48 -0000

Well, I really think that leveraging a real compiler infrastructure like LLVM is better than using a homegrown (or adobe-grown) solution. Moreover, although you may think that using tamarin would have given automatic full actionscript functionality this is far from true. Tamarin supports the language _opcodes_ (and lightspark basically has supported them to a large extent for a long time with only minor issues). But to have AS3 support we also need to reimplement the runtime library/classes (such as flash.net.NetStream, flash.video.Video, flash.geom.Rectangle and so on). Those classes are not provided by tamarin and those are also the really hard and time consuming thing that is being implemented in lightspark.

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

apignotti — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:22:01 -0000

I've done no testing personally, but it will work if Opera is fully NPAPI compliant. Although Adobe's player can live even with a reduced set of functionality lightspark really needs all the the APIs.

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

Yyz82 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:49:40 -0000

it works with Opera browser?

Re: Lightspark 0.4.2.3 bug fix release

will — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:55:17 -0000

Very interesting project. But I have a question which I think must have been asked before...why not use the open source tamarin/NanoJIT project as a basis? what does LLVM offer that Tamarin does not?

Maybe put it in the FAQ!

cheers

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 — Bacchus released

Timon Van Overveldt — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:45:51 -0000

I don't want to be rude, but if you just listen to what apignotti has to say, you'd actually find out that he's probably right. We've had a lot of reports of graphics glitches and like 90% of the time they ARE caused by buggy drivers.

In an effort to be as efficient as possible LS happens to use some features that are unsupported or not fully supported by some drivers. Just because other apps work doesn't mean LS should. So claiming that's probably not the issue, without knowing what you're talking about is kind of lame.

Finally, as mentioned before: LS is in a state of constant development. apignotti tries to release as often as possible to both attract new developers and attract new (occasional) users that might provide useful bug reports. Would you want him to just do it all by himself up until it's usable for every flash file in existance?

Just be glad some people are putting their time into this project instead of complaining, which by the way doesn't help anyone anyway.

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 — Bacchus released

Babar — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:08:31 -0000

I have only the point of view of a user/tester, but you say :

"[Lightspark] is released in a premature and badly tested state."

Yes, it's released in a premature state but it's also a good way to chase and fix all the bugs appearing on the road to a stable free Flash player.
Besides Lightspark advertises itself as being in intense development, so its current state shouldn't come as a surprise. No one uses e.g. Wayland right now and then comes complaining about its state.

So it's far from being perfect -- or even usable with all websites using Flash apps -- but, damn, give it a chance instead of just being so negative and criticizing what people are trying to achieve.

To apignotti : good work as always, it's a pity Youtube changed the shape of its player. Keep up the good work !

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 — Bacchus released

apignotti — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:08:36 -0000

Feel free to report a bug here https://bugs.launchpad.net/lig... so that we can try to isolate the issue.

About Gnash working, YouTube specifically send an old, gnash compatible, SWF when gnash is detected.

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 — Bacchus released

Mks — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:54:58 -0000

1) Of ocurse I have working PulseAudio. It works with every other program.
2) The video glitches are most likely NOT video driver issues, because they - also - work with everything else. Compiz/Mutter, Clutter, XBMC, games, etc. Never had any problem.

I don't want to be rude, but every single one of the free Flash reimplementations was a big letdown. Not one made it to a usable state, before just another guy appeared on the stage and thought he can make it all better. This software is no exception. It is released in a premature and badly tested state.

I now have Gnash installed. It plays Youtube at least. Even if it uses double the CPU power of Flash.

What I want to say: In general I appreciate your effort on trying to implement a free Flash clone. But perhaps you should consider to use your precious time on a project with better chances.

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 — Bacchus released

apignotti — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:50:59 -0000

The buttons were made not visible by an update of the YouTube player. We need to improve mouse events support to get them back.

About the sound please check that you have a working pulseaudio installation or try the recently added sdl backend (instruction about changing backends are available in the lightspark configuration file /etc/xdg/lightspark.conf)

About the graphics glitches, they're most probably video driver issues. Please try a less recent (or more recent) mesa version.

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 — Bacchus released

Mks — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:26:31 -0000

Youtube: no sound, no buttons, the video is flickering like hell and has graphic glitches like green and pink pixel etc.

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

apignotti — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:15:56 -0000

PPC (and actually any platform) has been supported for a few releases. Support is unfortunately suboptimal as we miss a couple of accelerated assembly routines that are available for x86 and amd64. Long term plan is to replace those routines with LLVM IR so that it can be compiled to the native bytecode of the platform.

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

David Maloney — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:32:43 -0000

Any word on PowerPC Linux support?

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

Fred — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:52:26 -0000

Many thanks for this highly useful software. I am eager to see how to make it work on other sites than youtube e.g. the BBC news videos. Do you have some sort of test suite or corpus of flash sites to test on?

Re: Lightspark 0.4.8 released!

modric — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:07:14 -0000

It's nice to hear that

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

James — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:30:41 -0000

fantastic work!

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

apignotti — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:26:02 -0000

gtk is necessary as it's basically the only supported way to make a NPAPI plugin

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

Venkata Dorairaj — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:31:32 -0000

would there be a non-gtk version of lightspark?

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

apignotti — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:52:08 -0000

Oops. I meant "now" indeed. I've fixed the post :-)

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

Stefano — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:29:41 -0000

XML support! Finally! Great feature list! Well done

Re: Lightspark 0.5.0 RC1 is out!

Poletti Marco — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:16:44 -0000

"For YouTube: Play/Pause/Enlarge buttons are not working correctly".
Is this an improvement? Or maybe did you mean "now" instead of "not"? :-)

Re: Lightspark 0.4.8 released!

apignotti — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:56:49 -0000

I'm afraid we don't have to manpower to keep official compatibility with older distros. Moreover during lightspark development we often improve other libraries, especially their thread safety and backporting all of them would be too heavy.