Gnash is a player for animated "movies" in the Macromedia Shockwave Flash(.swf) format. It can be run as a graphical application, as a Web browserplugin, or as a library used by other programs.It supports playing media from a disk or streaming over a network connection. Some popular video sharing sites like YouTube are supported on a wide variety of devices from embedded ones to modern desktops.Gnash has a better focus on security, allowing the user tight control of all network or disk based I/O. Gnash also supports extending ActionScript by creating your own classes. You can write wrappers for any development library, and import them into the player much like Perl or Python does. Gnash is known to compile for most any POSIX and ANSI C++ conforming system if you have all the dependent libraries installed. Gnash has been designed to run on UNIX/Linux variants, and has been run on most of the free ones. However, Gnash has successfully run on Darwin (Mac OS X), Windows, Irix, Solaris, BeOs, OS/2, and Haiku. Gnash has also run on the following 64-bit systems:If you will be downloading Gnash with a package manager, these dependencies may be solved by the package manager. Otherwise, you must first verify that each of these dependencies are installed on the target system.Gnash uses ffmpeg for codecs, so any file supported by Mplayer should work with Gnash. Gnash supports the loading of patent free codecs like Ogg Vorbis or Theora from disk based files, while work is being done to support these codecs when embedded in a SWF file. Ffmpeg contains the codecs used by the current SWF defintion, FLV, VP6 (ON2), H.263, H.264, and MP3.Here are some key features of "Gnash":

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