That will change when RTMP is added.

It should be easy to grab the "rtmp:" part of the URL when it's passed to NetConnection, and print a better error message. I'm traveling right now, so maybe one of the other devs can add this.

A quick check shows the BCC is using port 1935, ala RTMP, so this won't work until my current RTMP work is integrated into Gnash. This is on the TODO list for the next release (3+ months, not 0.8.3). As Adobe claims RTMP is now patented, it's also entirely likely nobody will be able to redistribute this in a binary package, even though it works. Once again software patents screw the end user, and only benefit monopolies. So anyway, the network connection fails because the RTMP handshake doesn't currently work.

From the log it looks like the timeout message comes
from the SWF itself, not gnash.
Beside, there are many UNIMPLEMENTED messages coming out
from gnash.

Apart from that, I can reproduce what seems an 'hung'
(but waiting some goes passed it)

I suspect this is one of those NetStream event order
related things. I'm running with gstreamer.

Rob, are you using ffmpeg ?

You mentioned:

> This eventually says 'Timed out when trying to connect'

Try setting streams timeout to an higher number in your
~/.gnashrc:

# Timeout in seconds for stream download
#
# The download will timeout after the given seconds
# of inactivity. Every activity resets the timer
#
# Default: 10
#
set streamsTimeout 20

I tested this on an x86 machine running ubuntu Hardy, so my guess is it's probably a PPC related problem. although it could potentially be an issue with Fedora 9.

Also: when it first starts (before I click on it to start the video playing), is the bottom of the picture supposed to be red?

http://david.woodhou.se/gnash-red.png

Gnash CVS as of today, on Fedora 9 PPC.

 $ gnash --version
RcInitFile: parsing /usr/etc/gnashrc
RcInitFile: parsing /home/dwmw2/.gnashrc
Warning: unrecognized directive "splash_screen" in rcfile /home/dwmw2/.gnashrc line 2
Gnash cvs

Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General
Public License.  For more information, see the file named COPYING.

Build options cvs
   Target:
   Renderer: agg - GUI: GTK - Media handler: gst
   Configured with: --disable-static --with-plugindir=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins --enable-media=GST --prefix=/usr
   CXXFLAGS: -g -O2 -pthread -pthread     -W     -Wall     -Wcast-align     -Wcast-qual     -Wpointer-arith     -Wreturn-type      -fvisibility-inlines-hidden
Built against gstreamer version: 0.10.19
Linked against gstreamer version: 0.10.19

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7407119.stm ends up invoking gnash (almost) as follows:

/usr/bin/gtk-gnash -j 400 -k 260 -u http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/2_2_2046/player.swf -F 57 -U http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7407119.stm -P allowfullscreen=true -P 'flashvars=config=http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/config/default.xml&companionSize=300x30&companionType=adi&preroll=&config_settings_autoPlay=false&playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Femp%2F7400000%2F7407200%2F7407212.xml&config_plugin_fmtjLiveStats_pageType=eav2&embedReferer=&config_plugin_fmtjLiveStats_edition=Domestic&embedPageUrl=/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7407119.stm&' -P height=260 -P id=bbc_emp_fmtj_embed_emb -P name=embeddedPlayer_7407212 -P src=http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/2_2_2046/player.swf -P type=application/x-shockwave-flash -P width=400 -P wmode=default http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/2_2_2046/player.swf

This eventually says 'Timed out when trying to connect' somewhere lost in the debug output, while the GUI just freezes. There was no traffic between this machine and avclip.bbc.co.uk (217.243.192.52) apart from the following HTTP transaction:

GET /fcs/ident HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: Gnash-cvs

Host: avclip.bbc.co.uk

Accept: /



HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Cache-Control: no-cache

Connection: Keep-Alive

Content-Length: 74

Server: FlashCom/2.5.4

Content-Type: application/xml



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<fcs><ip>217.243.192.52</ip></fcs>