Re: [Gnash] Does gnash use swfdec?

[Rob Savoye]

Louise Hoffman wrote:

> I was wondering, is swfdec a library and gnash is a frontend/web plugin?

  Both are a standalone player, as well as a Mozilla plugin. They have
entirely different code bases.

> Linus filed a bug report to Fedora
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439858
> 
> where he complains about the lack of YouTube support.
> 
> How can that be swfdec is mentioned, when Fedora uses gnash?

  Fedora has both, and they suffer from the same problem Linus noticed,
which is the user needs to install the ffmpeg-gstreamer plugin to
Gstreamer for YouTube to work.

        - rob -