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Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Previously, it was only possible
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to play flash movies with proprietary software. While there are
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some other free flash players, none support anything beyond SWF v4.
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Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports many SWF v7 features.
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Features:
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- Runs standalone
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Gnash can run standalone to play flash movies.
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- Browser plugin
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Gnash can also run as a plugin from within most Mozilla derived
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browsers, such as Firefox. Gnash also has support for Konqueror.
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- SWF v7 compliant
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Gnash can play many current flash movies.
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- XML Message server
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Gnash also supports an XML based message system as documented in
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the Flash Format specification.
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- High Quality Output
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Gnash uses OpenGL for rendering the graphics on the desktop, and
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AntiGrain (AGG) for embedded framebuffer only devices.
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- Free Software
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Gnash is 100% free software. For more information on the GPL, go
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to the Free Software Foundation web site.
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- Better Security
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Gnash pays extra attention to all network connections, and allows
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the user to control access.
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WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
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