SWFdec vs Gnash (also gcjwebplugin)

[Bill Nottingham]

Francis Earl (francis.earl at gmail.com) said: 
> Are there any technical reasons as to why Fedora seems to prefer SWFdec
> over Gnash?

It works better would be the short answer. Having run both of
them through a test suite (available at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestResults/Fedora9Swfdec/Rawhide),
swfdec performed *much* better, not the least because it supports
a larger subset of Flash 9.

Bill