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I don't get it, aren't there free (and open source) Flash players besides Adobe's? Google Chrome doesn't use Adobe's Flash player, for instance, but a player c
by nkkollaw 10y ago
I don't get it, aren't there free (and open source) Flash players besides Adobe's?
Google Chrome doesn't use Adobe's Flash player, for instance, but a player called PepperFlash.
Adobe could very well discontinue developing their player, and just tell people to use an open source version. They could make it a marketing stunt by open sourcing their player for user freedom or some stuff like that.
- jhasse 10y agoI think PepperFlash is a fork of Adobe's Flash, just with a different interface for the browser.
- robinduckett 10y agoPepperFlash is made by Adobe, and is closed source, it's called "PepperFlash" because it uses a different set of APIs, "PPAPI" vs "NPAPI". It's available to download from their "other versions" download page, so I'm wondering what your point is?
- future1979 10y agoPepper and Nacl seem to have an uncertain. I read that Google unstaffed some teams. Anyone familiar with what is going on?
- nkkollaw 10y agoAh, got it. My bad, I thought it was a completely different implementation.
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- icebraining 10y agoThere are only two open source players AFAIK; Shumway, which has been discontinued, and GNU Gnash, which despite the heroic efforts still doesn't support all features.
- cpeterso 10y agoThere is also Lightspark: https://lightspark.github.io/ https://lightspark.github.io/