Archive for May, 2011
Lightspark 0.4.8 released!
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Lightspark on May 27, 2011
Just a quick note to announce that Lightspark 0.4.8 has been released! The main difference from the RC1 is that a nasty memory allocation bug has been fixed, greatly reducing the amount of memory used when playing video. This release of the free, high performance, flash player implementation officially supports YouTube (as usual) and Vimeo (new entry!) You can find the code on Launchpad. Testing and bug reporting is extremely welcome. You can also usually find (friendly) support on the #lightspark IRC channel on FreeNode. As a last note, a regression of the NVIDIA proprietary driver forced me to start using nouveau and, although I was fairly skeptic, I’m pretty happy so far. This of course means lightspark will be finally developed and tested throughly on a completely free stack!
Update: I forgot to cherry pick one commit before the release and so 0.4.8 don’t actually build. 0.4.8.1 fixes the issue. Sorry for the silly mistake.
Lightspark 0.4.8 released!
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Lightspark on May 27, 2011
Just a quick note to announce that Lightspark 0.4.8 has been released! The main difference from the RC1 is that a nasty memory allocation bug has been fixed, greatly reducing the amount of memory used when playing video. This release of the free, high performance, flash player implementation officially supports YouTube (as usual) and Vimeo (new entry!) You can find the code on Launchpad. Testing and bug reporting is extremely welcome. You can also usually find (friendly) support on the #lightspark IRC channel on FreeNode. As a last note, a regression of the NVIDIA proprietary driver forced me to start using nouveau and, although I was fairly skeptic, I’m pretty happy so far. This of course means lightspark will be finally developed and tested throughly on a completely free stack!
Update: I forgot to cherry pick one commit before the release and so 0.4.8 don’t actually build. 0.4.8.1 fixes the issue. Sorry for the silly mistake.
Lightspark 0.4.8 RC1 is out!
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Lightspark on May 22, 2011
A new release of lightspark, the free, high performance, flash player has been released! This is the first candidate for the 0.4.8 release. Beside the usual ton of fixes and improvements this release includes an initial support for Vimeo.
As you can see form the screenshot the support is still experimental and the video is way smaller than it should be.
Nevertheless this is a really important milestone for our project and proves what I’ve been saying for a long time: Lightspark is _not_ a YouTube specific hack, we are working hard to improve the amount of supported flash features and over time expect more and more sites to work.
Please note that this is a release candidate as many changes has been done, so it’s definitely possible that some issues will come up. Please report bugs on Launchpad as usual. You can find the source for this release on Launchpad as well.
Lightspark 0.4.8 RC1 is out!
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Lightspark on May 22, 2011
A new release of lightspark, the free, high performance, flash player has been released! This is the first candidate for the 0.4.8 release. Beside the usual ton of fixes and improvements this release includes an initial support for Vimeo.
As you can see form the screenshot the support is still experimental and the video is way smaller than it should be.
Nevertheless this is a really important milestone for our project and proves what I’ve been saying for a long time: Lightspark is _not_ a YouTube specific hack, we are working hard to improve the amount of supported flash features and over time expect more and more sites to work.
Please note that this is a release candidate as many changes has been done, so it’s definitely possible that some issues will come up. Please report bugs on Launchpad as usual. You can find the source for this release on Launchpad as well.
Lightspark 0.4.7.1 released
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Lightspark on May 6, 2011
Hi everyone! After quite some time I’m proud to announce the release of a brand new version of the Lightspark open source flash player. The most visible feature for users is that YouTube support is now restored. Under the hood also the code base has been cleaned up a bit. You can get the updated tarball on Launchpad as usual
The work to support Hulu.com is currently on hold as rtmpdump/librtmp seems to be no more able to access Hulu’s contents and we’re waiting for an upstream fix. In the mean time I’m experimenting a bit to add Vimeo.com support and the results are fairly promising
Lightspark 0.4.7.1 released
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Lightspark on May 6, 2011
Hi everyone! After quite some time I’m proud to announce the release of a brand new version of the Lightspark open source flash player. The most visible feature for users is that YouTube support is now restored. Under the hood also the code base has been cleaned up a bit. You can get the updated tarball on Launchpad as usual
The work to support Hulu.com is currently on hold as rtmpdump/librtmp seems to be no more able to access Hulu’s contents and we’re waiting for an upstream fix. In the mean time I’m experimenting a bit to add Vimeo.com support and the results are fairly promising