It’s done. Swfdec
0.4.3 is out, so for everyone that couldn’t or didn’t
want to dig into the dirty world of unreleased code, grab
the releases of Swfdec
and Swfdec-Mozilla.
It will probably take a while before this hits the big
distributions, since there’s legal issues with the video
plugins and Debian and Ubuntu are still busy releasing.

For this release I’ve done all the easy tasks in Youtube
playback, so you can play/pause, rewind and watch the slider
on the seek bar. You still can’t seek or change the volume,
but that has to wait. But you can right-click, select
Properties and save the video you’re watching. So there, a
feature that’s not in the official player.

A big thanks to all the people who’ve encouraged me, filed
bugs or submitted patches, wrote articles or blog posts
about swfdec and otherwise kept me busy for the last week.
It’s been an interesting experience although I still think I
suck at marketing and public relations. Somehow Christian
does a much better job pimping my stuff.

The only thing I’ve figured out is that even though lots of
people are interested in Flash in many different forms,
there’s a very small amount of people actually hacking on
making Free Flash a reality. Even though the technologies
used in Flash are what everyone wants. I wonder why that is?