Gnash – or GNU Flash Player 0.88 has been released recently. Gnash is an open-source Flash player. With this latest release, they have made a great leap by supporting all YouTube videos.

This means that you do not have to install the proprietary Flash player from Adobe to enjoy YouTube videos becouse Gnash will handle all flash encoded videos with ease. It’s available like standalone player and as a plugin for browsers like Konqueror, Firefox, Chrome/Chromium etc.

Some other Gnash features besides YouTube support:

• Ability to switch renderer (Cairo, OpenGL, and AGG) at runtime.
• Ability to switch media handler (FFmpeg and Gstream) at runtime.
• Hardware video decoding with the VAAPI library.

You can download and compile the source from here.

For Ubuntu users execute the commands below: (The PPA may be not updated to the latest relese but soon it will be )

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnash/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gnash

Have fun.

Tags | Flash, Linux, Open Source, Software