Gnash Won't Play Certain Flash Content
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Gnash won't play certain flash content that I want to watch.
I installed lightspark and browser-plugin-lightspark.
But lightspark doesn't appear in the Midori list of extensions.
Midori is the default browser in Trisquel-mini which is why I'm trying to use it but I think I'd rather use a different browser.
Which freedom browsers will lightspark work with automatically as a plugin / extension? I'd like one that will play 1080p htlm5 video on Youtube (Midori will only play 720p)
Thanks.
Joe
What do you need Flash for? Pretty much every use of Flash has an HTML fallback these days. That includes YouTube, which hasn't required Flash in years.
> 1080p htlm5 video on Youtube (Midori will only play 720p)
YouTube doesn't distribute 1080p as a single video file anymore; instead it distributes the video and audio separately and depends on some JavaScript code to mux the pieces together, and this requires support for Media Source Extensions. Firefox and variants of it such as Abrowser can handle this just fine AFAIK.
I don't need flash for youtube.
I'm embarrased to say what I need it for. But Midori with Gnash extension won't play it. (Gnash says AWM2 not supported) If these sites have html5 fallback, its not being played by Midori for whatever reason
If it's porn, go to a different porn site. You'll find one that works without Flash. Heck, there's a Greasemonkey script called "ViewTubePlus" (not to be confused with "ViewTube+") designed for porn sites, and it works with dozens of them.
I can't imagine anything else you could be embarrassed about watching.
By the way, why are you using Midori? It's not a bad browser, granted, but Firefox-based browsers like Abrowser are much better.
I installed Abrowser through Synaptic package manager (it wasn't listed in Add/Remove Applications). It plays the flash content that I wanted. I notice that is has both Gnash and lightspark as plugins. It also plays 1080p html5 on youtube if I disable "html5 video everywhere" extension.
Thanks!
See https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/play-videos-without-using-flash for solutions on many (not all) websites. I happily use ViewTube and ViewTube+ and when it fails, I try UnPlug.
Thanks for this. I had browsed the wiki but hadn't had time yet to delve into the long "Home and Office" section. Looks like there's lots of good stuff there.
From the standpoint of promoting freedom, is it preferred not to watch flash videos at all (even using Gnash or lightspark?) If so then I will go to the extra trouble of trying to access non-flash video on those websites or searching for other websites that offer non-flash video.
"html5 video everywhere" was already an installed and enabled extension on Abrowser. Does it do good things from a promoting freedom standpoint? When I said I disabled the "html5-video-everywhere", I only disabled it for youtube. So I'm still watching html5 video on youtube, just not with the Firefox player implemented by "html5 video everywhere"
Will "html5 video everywhere" prompt websites with flash content to enable access to html5 as an alternative? I might disable Gnash and lightspark to find out.
Flash plugins execute programs written in the ActionScript programming language. ActionScript can be decompiled but it often is obfuscated, i.e., the source code is inaccessible and the programs are proprietary, an injustice. https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/play-videos-without-using-flash gives free software solutions to read (and save) Flash videos. They are useless to, say, play Flash games (except the plugins in the "Flash Replacements" section... if the Flash program is very old).
Flash has effectively been obseleted by HTML5. It will take a few years for all web developers to catch up, and all websites to transition, and a few will just never bother (obviously including unmaintained websites kept up for archival purposes). But most sites now have an HTML5 option, and there are HTML5 game engines being developed to replace Flash games eg http://www.kiwijs.org/
Indeed, HTML5 Video Everywhere is one of the best add-ons.
Personaly, as a free/libre software activist myself, I would recommend
one of the following combinations:
* GNU LibreJS (to block only non-free software that is silently
installed by the site makers on your browser. LibreJS also provides
ways to cantact the site makers. Note that LibreJS might use some of
your computer's power to evaluate which site software is free or not) + GreaseMonkey (to run
software you want to in some page) + ViewTube (install it using
GreaseMonkey. Allows you to view YouTube videos (and some from other
sites) your way, and using only free/libre software). This is my
preffered method.
* The above, but replace GNU LibreJS with NoScript, which blocks **all**
site software, everywhere.
I am a translator!
Have a look at youtube-dl, OP. It can download directly flash videos from a ton of websites.
To install it you can use pip.
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install youtube-dl
To update:
sudo pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl
cheers
Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions. I am using Abrowser now instead of Midori. I deactivated the Gnash and lightspark plugins and now most of the sites that I thought only offered flash videos are playing in some other format (html5 I suppose). I'll also keep in mind your suggestions for scripts and other methods.
I feel that Mozilla Firefox/Abrowser "Html5Everywhere" plugin is the best flash player ever on Free Software browsers.
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