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+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_the_Coverity_issues_in_Gnash_fixed_in_the_next_release.html">Half the Coverity issues in Gnash fixed in the next release</a></div>
+      <div class="date">29th April 2014</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>I've been following <a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">the Gnash
+project</a> for quite a while now.  It is a free software
+implementation of Adobe Flash, both a standalone player and a browser
+plugin.  Gnash implement support for the AVM1 format (and not the
+newer AVM2 format - see
+<a href="http://lightspark.github.io/">Lightspark</a> for that one),
+allowing several flash based sites to work.  Thanks to the friendly
+developers at Youtube, it also work with Youtube videos, because the
+Javascript code at Youtube detect Gnash and serve a AVM1 player to
+those users. :) Would be great if someone found time to implement AVM2
+support, but it has not happened yet.  If you install both Lightspark
+and Gnash, Lightspark will invoke Gnash if it find a AVM1 flash file,
+so you can get both handled as free software.  Unfortunately,
+Lightspark so far only implement a small subset of AVM2, and many
+sites do not work yet.</p>
+
+<p>A few months ago, I started looking at
+<a href="http://scan.coverity.com/">Coverity</a>, the static source
+checker used to find heaps and heaps of bugs in free software (thanks
+to the donation of a scanning service to free software projects by the
+company developing this non-free code checker), and Gnash was one of
+the projects I decided to check out.  Coverity is able to find lock
+errors, memory errors, dead code and more.  A few days ago they even
+extended it to also be able to find the heartbleed bug in OpenSSL.
+There are heaps of checks being done on the instrumented code, and the
+amount of bogus warnings is quite low compared to the other static
+code checkers I have tested over the years.</p>
+
+<p>Since a few weeks ago, I've been working with the other Gnash
+developers squashing bugs discovered by Coverity.  I was quite happy
+today when I checked the current status and saw that of the 777 issues
+detected so far, 374 are marked as fixed.  This make me confident that
+the next Gnash release will be more stable and more dependable than
+the previous one.  Most of the reported issues were and are in the
+test suite, but it also found a few in the rest of the code.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to help out, you find us on
+<a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev">the
+gnash-dev mailing list</a> and on
+<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#gnash">the #gnash channel on
+irc.freenode.net IRC server</a>.</p>
+</div>
+      <div class="tags">
+        
+        
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>. 
+        
+        
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="padding"></div>
+    
     <div class="entry">
       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html">Install hardware dependent packages using tasksel (Isenkram 0.7)</a></div>
       <div class="date">23rd April 2014</div>
@@ -966,61 +1021,6 @@ to set up?</p>
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-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Video_DVD_reader_library___python_dvdvideo___nice_free_software.html">Video DVD reader library / python-dvdvideo - nice free software</a></div>
-      <div class="date">21st March 2014</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Keeping your DVD collection safe from scratches and curious
-children fingers while still having it available when you want to see a
-movie is not straight forward.  My preferred method at the moment is
-to store a full copy of the ISO on a hard drive, and use VLC, Popcorn
-Hour or other useful players to view the resulting file.  This way the
-subtitles and bonus material are still available and using the ISO is
-just like inserting the original DVD record in the DVD player.</p>
-
-<p>Earlier I used dd for taking security copies, but it do not handle
-DVDs giving read errors (which are quite a few of them).  I've also
-tried using
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ripping_problematic_DVDs_using_dvdbackup_and_genisoimage.html">dvdbackup
-and genisoimage</a>, but these days I use the marvellous python library
-and program
-<a href="http://bblank.thinkmo.de/blog/new-software-python-dvdvideo">python-dvdvideo</a>
-written by Bastian Blank.  It is
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-dvdvideo.html">in Debian
-already</a> and the binary package name is python3-dvdvideo. Instead
-of trying to read every block from the DVD, it parses the file
-structure and figure out which block on the DVD is actually in used,
-and only read those blocks from the DVD.  This work surprisingly well,
-and I have been able to almost backup my entire DVD collection using
-this method.</p>
-
-<p>So far, python-dvdvideo have failed on between 10 and
-20 DVDs, which is a small fraction of my collection.  The most common
-problem is
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720831">DVDs
-using UTF-16 instead of UTF-8 characters</a>, which according to
-Bastian is against the DVD specification (and seem to cause some
-players to fail too).  A rarer problem is what seem to be inconsistent
-DVD structures, as the python library
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723079">claim
-there is a overlap between objects</a>.  An equally rare problem claim
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741878">some
-value is out of range</a>.  No idea what is going on there.  I wish I
-knew enough about the DVD format to fix these, to ensure my movie
-collection will stay with me in the future.</p>
-
-<p>So, if you need to keep your DVDs safe, back them up using
-python-dvdvideo. :)</p>
-</div>
-      <div class="tags">
-        
-        
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>. 
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