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tr.v., gnashed, gnash·ing, gnash·es.
  1. To grind or strike (the teeth, for example) together.
  2. To bite (something) by grinding the teeth.

[Alteration of Middle English gnasten, gnaisten, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse gnastan, a gnashing.]

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Thesaurus: gnash
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verb

  1. To rub together noisily: crunch, grind. See sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence.
  2. To seize, as food, with the teeth: bite, champ, chomp, gnaw. See attack/defend, ingestion.

 
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The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: grind together, of teeth

 
Wikipedia: Gnash
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For the hockey team mascot, see Gnash (mascot).
Gnash

Screenshot of Gnash 0.8.0 GTK+ GUI with test SWF file
Developer(s) Rob Savoye, Sandro Santilli, Bastiaan Jacques, Vitaly Alexeev, Tomas Groth, Udo Giacomozzi, Hannes Mayr, Markus Gothe, Ann Barcomb.
Stable release 0.8.5 / 2009-03-04; 3 months ago
Written in C++, GTK+ / Qt
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Interpreter, Media player
License GNU General Public License
Website gnashdev.org

The Gnash project aims to create a free software player and browser plugin for the Adobe Flash file format and replace the proprietary software niche currently occupied by Adobe Flash Player. It developed from the GPLFlash project.

Gnash was first announced by software developer John Gilmore. The current lead developer is Rob Savoye.

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History

Writing a free software Flash player has been a priority of the GNU project for some time.[1] Prior to the launch of Gnash, the GNU project had asked for people to assist the GPLFlash project. The majority of the previous GPLFlash developers have now moved to the Gnash project and the existing GPLFlash codebase will be refocused towards supporting embedded systems.[2]

The primary distribution terms for Gnash are those of the GNU GPL. However since Gnash was started using the codebase of the GameSWF project, which is in the public domain, code developed by the Gnash project which might be useful in GameSWF is placed in the public domain.[3]

Technical details

Adobe provides an official player for GNU/Linux on x86 in a binary-only form.[4] Gnash, however, can be compiled and executed on many architectures, including x86, AMD64, MIPS/IRIX, and PowerPC. It also supports BSD-based operating systems. An early port for RISC OS, which has never had Macromedia/Adobe Flash support beyond Flash 3,[5] does exist, as well as an early port for BeOS, where Flash support terminated at Version 4.[6] Development of a port to AmigaOS 4.1 has also recently begun. [7]

Currently, Gnash can play SWF files up to version 7, as well as some features of the new version 8-9 files. Gnash supports playback of FLV videos and allows playing some FLV files from YouTube, MySpace, ShowMeDo and other similar websites (older files with sound - newer files without playing sound). FLV support requires FFmpeg or GStreamer to be installed on the system.[8]

Some other free-software programs, such as MPlayer,[9] VLC media player[10] or players for Windows based on the ffdshow DirectShow codecs can play back the FLV format if the file is specially downloaded or piped to it.

The goal of the Gnash developers is to be as compatible as possible with the proprietary player (including behavior on bad ActionScript code). However, Gnash offers some special features not available in the Adobe player, such as the possibility to extend the ActionScript classes via shared libraries: sample extensions include MySQL support, file system access and more. For security reasons the extension mechanism must be compiled-in explicitly and enabled via configuration files.

Gnash requires one of AGG, Cairo, or OpenGL for rendering. In contrast to most GNU projects, which are typically written in C, Gnash is written in the C++ programming language because of its GameSWF heritage.[11]

See also

Free software portal

References

  1. ^ "High Priority Free Software Projects". http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-05. 
  2. ^ "GPLFlash homepage". http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/. Retrieved on 2007-04-17. 
  3. ^ Gilmore, John (20 December 2005). "Welcome to the Gnash project!". Gnash mailing list. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash/2005-12/msg00000.html. Retrieved on 2006-12-28. 
  4. ^ "Adobe TechNote: Flash Player support on 64-bit operating systems". Adobe. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=6b3af6c9. Retrieved on 2007-04-22. 
  5. ^ "RISC OS To Get Flash, Word Support". Thom Holwerda, osnews.com. http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=16552. Retrieved on 2007-04-22. 
  6. ^ "Gnash for BeOS (Take 2)". DaaT, joomla.iscomputeron.com. http://joomla.iscomputeron.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=924. Retrieved on 2007-04-22. 
  7. ^ "Gnash - The GNU SWF movie player". Amigasoft.net. http://www.amigasoft.net/pages/gnash/gnash.asp. Retrieved on 2009-06-15. 
  8. ^ "Task #5930 on GNU Gnash Savannah Site". Gnash Developers. http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5930. Retrieved on 2007-04-22. 
  9. ^ "FFmpeg Documentation - Supported Video Formats". MPlayer Developers. http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC24. Retrieved on 2007-04-22. 
  10. ^ "VideoLAN Client Features List". VideoLAN Developers. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-22. 
  11. ^ "Why do you use C++ and not C? FAQ entry". Gnash Project. http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/25#c++. Retrieved on 2008-07-14. 

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Translations: Gnash
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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - skære (tænder)

Nederlands (Dutch)
knarsetanden, tandengeknars

Français (French)
v. tr. - (lit, fig) grincer des dents

Deutsch (German)
v. - knirschen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - τρίζω τα δόντια

Italiano (Italian)
digrignare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - ranger

Русский (Russian)
скрежет зубов, скрежетать зубами

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - chirriar, rechinar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - gnissla (om tänder)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
咬

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 咬

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - (분노로) 악물다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 歯ぎしりする, きしらせる, 歯をきしらせてかむ
n. - 歯ぎしり

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يصر باسنانه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮חרק (בשיניים)‬

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