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Message started by Fernando on Apr 17^th, 2016, 12:51am

Title: Flash Animations & Movies on an R-Pi?
Post by Fernando on Apr 17^th, 2016, 12:51am

Like a lot of things on the Internet, Flash and Shockwave Animation and Movies reign as king. But Flash and Shockwave is made by Adobe, and though their player is free for the download, it is only for Windows and Mac OSX. It is not for Unix (except for Mac OSX), Linux or Android. Their mistake...

Like a lot of things in the Open Source Software Repository, someone would figure it out and make a version of it for Unix, Linux and Android. It is called Gnash, short for Gnu-Flash. And it is available for the Raspberry Pi.

Before you can download it and install it, you need to update your system first with:

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sudo apt-get update

This ensure that the Raspbian Repository Library is in tune with what updates to software location are there.

Once Raspbian is updated, you can now install Gnash. It takes a minute to do so with the sudo apt-get command:

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sudo apt-get install gnash

Once it is installed, restart/reboot your R-Pi with:

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sudo shutdown-r now

Now you can visit sites like YouTube with the your Raspberry Pi and enjoy the show...

I did this with an updated Jessie on a Model B+ R-Pi with some CPU Acceleration - 900MHz. This particular Model B+ I use for MAME Arcade emulation, so it is always a bit accelerated. YouTube played fine though I did not have my headphones one to hear it, the YouTube video went on without glitching. It is an SD Card I share with the R-Pi2, which would probably run it a lot better and smoother.

The installation itself was also problem free, as long as it was on an updated system (I need to test this on an Updated Wheezy, but on Updated Jessie it went perfect).

Title: Re: Flash Animations & Movies on an R-Pi?
Post by Hondo I. Sackett on Apr 17^th, 2016, 12:08pm

That's awesome! Been wondering about that.