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Lightspark 0.4.2 released


Ver­sion 0.4.2 of Lightspark, the mod­ern, effi­cient, open source Flash player is now offi­cially released, with a cou­ple of last moment fixes and improvements.

The main fea­tures of this new release are:

  • Use font­con­fig to select fonts
  • Greater com­pat­i­bil­ity with youtube video
  • Sound syn­chro­niza­tion
  • Chrome/Chromium sup­port
  • Firefox’s OOPP support

If you use a ver­sion of fire­fox newer than 3.6.4 you can ensure a crash free expe­ri­ence by enabling OOPP mode for lightspark, for instruc­tions see the wiki

Pack­age for Ubuntu Lucid and debian testing/unstable are pro­vided as usu­ally by the PPA. Pack­ages for Fedora 13 are also avail­able (cur­rently only for the i686 plato­form). See the instal­la­tion page for more information.

To test lightspark install it from pack­ages or sources and try one of the fol­low­ing pages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N2YWRJ-ppo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j7c0u9yZ8M

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  • ean5533

    Fan­tas­tic work. Look­ing for­ward to Gnash fall­back capa­bil­ity to make this a truly ver­sa­tile flash player.

  • Hmpfl333

    Hey, thanks a lot for your work! I hope there soon will be a free flash player!
    Unfor­tu­nately the video con­trols on youtube do not work for me.
    My inter­net con­nec­tion also is very slow and when player runs out of down­loaded and buffered video it starts to choke (doesn’t pre­buffer) and com­pletely for­gets about the sound.
    Also many youtube videos don’t work at all for me. Are those known issues or do you want fur­ther debug out­put? I’m using lucid with the cur­rent pro­pri­etary nvidia dri­ver and fire­fox 3.6.6. I also made sure lightspark is work­ing the way described on your trac page.

  • http://modplanman.myopenid.com/ RyanT

    Encoun­tered a prob­lem when installing from PPA in Ubuntu:

    “E: /var/cache/apt/archives/liblightspark42_0.4.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb: try­ing to over­write ‘/usr/lib/liblightspark.so.0.4.2′, which is also in pack­age lightspark-common 0″

    Though the flash player itself works pretty well, which is orsums. Any chance of Blip.tv compatibility?

  • apig­notti

    Please update to the most recent pack­age, the over­write issue should be fixed.

    More com­plete sup­port for any site will come over time, I’m cur­rently focus on YouTube given its popularity.

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  • apig­notti

    Only video played using the newer Flash10 player are sup­ported cur­rently, the older will be sup­ported using Gnash fall­back in ver­sion 0.4.3

  • Sung­suha

    when gnash fall­back is intro­duced, I can truly see lightspark becom­ing the default player for many free­dom ori­ented distros(like debian)

    KUTGW!!

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  • Marwi509

    Really impres­sive work. It’s amaz­ing you seem to be pro­gress­ing faster, and with more qual­ity, than the offi­cial Adobe flash player. (who seem to be blam­ing their short­com­ings on Linux) :)

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  • YET

    This one of those unnec­es­sary projects that will fail because you will never get video and stream­ing sup­port for legal and tech­ni­cal reasons...so this project is born to be doomed and imcom­plete from the beginning...a waste of men-power

  • onox

    Any chance that lightspark gets fixed that it can be com­piled by gcc-4.3.4? And that lightspark can be installed with­out requir­ing xul­run­ner bloatware?

  • onox

    (for chromium)

  • apig­notti

    Lightspark does not run xul­run­ner at run­time. at build time the xul­run­ner devel­op­ment pack­age is needed for the chromium plu­gin too.

    Lightspark needs the C++0x sup­port offered by GCC 4.4+. The cor­rect­ness of some code depends on atomic operations

  • Fun

    could you please release a PPA for ubuntu “karmic kaola”?
    thank you.

  • Kerry Hatcher

    Shweet, will be test­ing this out!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/LU62CBT47OL2OZMDFVO4N4YMMY Mr. Fid­dle­head

    Pack­ages for Fedora 13 are also avail­able (Cur­rently only for i686 ...)

    <groan/>

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/LU62CBT47OL2OZMDFVO4N4YMMY Mr. Fid­dle­head

    Hey wait, the x86_64 pack­ages are there for Fedora 13. Cool.

  • inFa­vo­rOf­Pig­notti

    ahaha u jeal­ous , the point is MAYBE he wants to use it and share it with the world going against AMERICAN POLICY. The world is FREE not America

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  • Sebas­t­ian Fiorentini

    How dif­fi­cult would be to add DirectFB ren­der­ing since I may use this excel­lent piece of soft­ware to use in embed­ded hard­ware. I can help with this if you want. Do you have the hot spots of ren­der­ing code?
    Regards
    Sebas­t­ian Fiorentini

  • apig­notti

    We may dis­cuss about this in IRC, but the cur­rent design is deeply focused on OpenGL and most prob­a­bly also a great deal of mem­ory usage opti­miza­tion is needed before lightspark is usable on embed­ded platforms

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  • Sebas­t­ian Fiorentini

    Ok. By the way I found that the lastest DirectFB sup­ports some sub­set of OpenGL prim­i­tives (run­ning over mesa). I’ll run a pro­file on this and check what hap­pens and write to you.

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  • http://www.google.com/profiles/110067375901855465830 Ben

    If Adobe ever wants to, they can pro­vide another plu­gin which this one can inter­face with and get those DRM (or what­ever encryption/data protection/copyright infringe­ment pre­ven­tion scheme they’re using) videos and dis­play them.

    I per­son­ally never liked that any­way. If peo­ple want those videos badly enough to copy them some odd way, then they can always play the video full screen and cap­ture the image with some screen scrub­bing pro­gram, or a video cam­era. I don’t like that peo­ple do it, but I don’t like them (Adobe, or com­pa­nies using their products/solutions) pre­vent­ing me from watch­ing those videos just because some­one else is break­ing the law, either.

  • Mr E Cameron

    dont want to be an ass­hole but noth­ing really works

  • Guest

    There’s a strange “0.4.2.1″ release for Fedora i686. My x86_64 install tries to upgrade 0.4.2 to that, installing i686 libraries and remov­ing the essen­tial advan­tage between Lightspark and Flash (apart from its open source status)

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/110067375901855465830 Ben

    Fun try­ing on Ubuntu 10.10 with xorg-edgers ppa, libgl1-mesa-dri-gallium, and nou­veau. There are ran­domly drawn tri­an­gles and the video and sound skips, but at least you can tell that progress is being made. I can’t wait until all these things become more sta­ble and fin­ished; I’m start­ing to get excited. ^.^

    I would guess that if I was using the nvidia binary dri­ver I wouldn’t have the issue with the tri­an­gles, since I was play­ing free­doom (just to test a game using nou­veau and opengl) and when I set the graph­ics to opengl, it had the same issue.

  • apig­notti

    Thanks for the report, there are some issues with the nou­veau dri­ver, but the nvidia pro­pri­etary should be fine. Please report a full bug reports on launch­pad, detail­ing your sys­tem sw/hw con­fig­u­ra­tion, as it’s hard to track reports in the com­ments. Thanks

  • apig­notti

    See the http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark/wik... page. For an exam­ple of what works see http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark/wik.... If the listed sam­ples does not work file a bug on launch­pad detail­ing your sys­tem con­fig­u­ra­tion. Thanks

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/110067375901855465830 Ben

    Wasn’t really meant to be a bug report as much as my per­sonal expe­ri­ence and a show of support.

    If I did file a bug, what would I include (aside from the sw/hw info)?

  • apig­notti