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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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  • 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
  • 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
  • Mr E Cameron
    dont want to be an asshole but nothing really works
  • apignotti
    See the http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark/wiki/Troubleshooting page. For an example of what works see http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark/wiki/WorkingSiteList. If the listed samples does not work file a bug on launchpad detailing your system configuration. Thanks
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Hey wait, the x86_64 packages are there for Fedora 13. Cool.
  • 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)
  • Pack­ages for Fedora 13 are also avail­able (Currently only for i686 ...)

    <groan>

    </groan>
  • Kerry Hatcher
    Shweet, will be testing this out!
  • Fun
    could you please release a PPA for ubuntu "karmic kaola"?
    thank you.
  • 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 need 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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) :)
  • Sungsuha
    when gnash fallback is introduced, I can truly see lightspark becoming the default player for many freedom oriented distros(like debian)

    KUTGW!!
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ean5533
    Fantastic work. Looking forward to Gnash fallback capability to make this a truly versatile flash player.
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