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Rockbox Development => Feature Ideas => Topic started by: BlackSwan on May 15, 2010, 03:27:29 PM

Title: Flash Lite viewer
Post by: BlackSwan on May 15, 2010, 03:27:29 PM
Hey! I'd like ask you to create flash lite viewer for RockBox... In official firmware for my player(D2) was flash lite 2.0 support...
Title: Re: FlashLight viewer
Post by: saratoga on May 15, 2010, 03:40:47 PM
Try the lamp plugin.
Title: Re: FlashLight viewer
Post by: Llorean on May 15, 2010, 03:57:38 PM
I think he means Flash Lite if he's referring to a viewer for the D2.
Title: Re: FlashLight viewer
Post by: Jennifur on May 15, 2010, 05:17:59 PM
I doubt there would be flash support for rockbox. Flash is proprietary anyways so we wouldn't be able to distribute it ourselves if it would work with rockbox. Someone can try porting gnash, but it will be hard and gnash is still quite buggy.
Title: Re: FlashLight viewer
Post by: BlackSwan on May 17, 2010, 11:24:26 AM
O... Sorry... Flash Lite

I think, that RockBox developers can try to ask Adobe for give libraries...
Or can be used free libraries like http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/...

Sorry fo my errors... I'm from Ukraine and don't know english well...
Title: Re: Flash Lite viewer
Post by: AlexP on May 17, 2010, 12:40:14 PM
Anything used by Rockbox would need to have the code released under a GPL compatible licence.  This doesn't include any Adobe flash code.
Title: Re: FlashLight viewer
Post by: saratoga on May 17, 2010, 01:45:13 PM
Or can be used free libraries like http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/...

That site says only up to flash 3, and it hasn't been updated in 10 years.  Currently flash 8 or 9 is required to play virtually all video out there.

If you just want to play FLV files, ffmpeg's codecs can do that, but most player won't have enough CPU power to do so.
Title: Re: Flash Lite viewer
Post by: BlackSwan on May 17, 2010, 04:07:54 PM
No... I want play games... :) And D2 have enough resources for this...

About link - i give this link only like a example...
Title: Re: FlashLight viewer
Post by: Jennifur on May 17, 2010, 04:45:02 PM
Or can be used free libraries like http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/...

That site says only up to flash 3, and it hasn't been updated in 10 years.  Currently flash 8 or 9 is required to play virtually all video out there.

If you just want to play FLV files, ffmpeg's codecs can do that, but most player won't have enough CPU power to do so.

Gnash supports Flash 7+ so it will work a bit better. It is also GNU software.

No... I want play games... :) And D2 have enough resources for this...

About link - i give this link only like a example...

It may have enough resources, but the problem is we can't use flash lite. We would have to use Gnash or some other GPL'd flash clone. Of course you can try to find a clone of the games you want that are GPL and are programmed in C. The game chopper would be an example of this.
Title: Re: Flash Lite viewer
Post by: BlackSwan on May 18, 2010, 09:47:22 AM
It may have enough resources, but the problem is we can't use flash lite. We would have to use Gnash or some other GPL'd flash clone. Of course you can try to find a clone of the games you want that are GPL and are programmed in C. The game chopper would be an example of this.

O, I think that flash lite is cropped version of Flash... I do not asking for Flash from Adobe, I only want be able to run flash applications in RockBox
Title: Re: Flash Lite viewer
Post by: Jennifur on May 18, 2010, 11:18:46 AM
It may have enough resources, but the problem is we can't use flash lite. We would have to use Gnash or some other GPL'd flash clone. Of course you can try to find a clone of the games you want that are GPL and are programmed in C. The game chopper would be an example of this.

O, I think that flash lite is cropped version of Flash... I do not asking for Flash from Adobe, I only want be able to run flash applications in RockBox

It is a "lighter" version of Aodbe flash. It is still not GPL so we can't use it.