Archive for May, 2011

Lightspark 0.4.8 released!

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.
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Lightspark 0.4.8 released!

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.
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Lightspark 0.4.8 RC1 is out!

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.

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Lightspark 0.4.8 RC1 is out!

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.

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Lightspark 0.4.7.1 released

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 :-)

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Lightspark 0.4.7.1 released

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 :-)

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