From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 13:13:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339A816A417 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:13:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wundram@beenic.net) Received: from mail.beenic.net (mail.beenic.net [83.246.72.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0620613C4CE for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:13:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wundram@beenic.net) Received: from [192.168.1.37] (a89-182-24-56.net-htp.de [89.182.24.56]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.beenic.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC5DA44529 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:08:18 +0200 (CEST) From: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" Organization: Beenic Networks GmbH To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:13:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200710231338.11681.mark@msen.com> <471EF8C8.2080404@lvor.halvorsen.cc> <471F3EFC.5020105@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <471F3EFC.5020105@charter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710241513.40461.wundram@beenic.net> Subject: Re: Writing Flash Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:13:46 -0000 Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:47:56 schrieb icantthinkofone: > Does that in any way answer the question? Yes, because gnash is an open-source (re)implementation of Flash Player, compatible with a large part of the Flash7 specification, so that you don't need Adobe's player to play Flash format multimedia files. Did you actually check out (i.e., visit _and_ read) the gnash website, if you're asking this? By the way, this has nothing to do with drivers; Flash is a data-container format, which requires a program (knowing the specification, which is sort-of-open, with the emphasis lying on "sort-of," not "open," for Flash) to interpret, not a device. The word "driver" is reserved for software providing access to the latter (at least in my vocabulary), or at least something happening in kernel-space. -- Heiko Wundram Product & Application Development