Multimedia :: flashplayer9



Quote (roberts @ Nov. 15 2007,18:16)
So flash 9 means big, bigger, bloat.

Flash 9 means idiotic; simple as that.  Why not have an "upgrade" that renders ALL current computers obsolete?
Quote (jpeters @ Nov. 13 2007,10:47)
Quote (io333 @ Nov. 12 2007,21:58)
Flash crashes in about 3 seconds on my end.  You mean it actually works for you?  If so, you're the only person it does for.  Could you explain why it doesn't crash for you but crashes for everyone else?

You have doubts?  :D

First of all, I think it was established that a 2.6 kernel is required for flash 9.

I got a number of flash videos to work on streetfire.net and youtube, using opera, and trying to watch a few different videos.  Eventually several of them showed fine (even if the exact same video didn't work the first few times... who knows why) except without sound.  So a 2.6 kernal is not required, only working out the bugs between flash9 and dsl.  The nice thing about opera is that it doesn't crash when a flash video doesn't work, it just grey's out the flash interface.  I did have to install all that GTK stuff, whatever it is.
Quote (io333 @ Nov. 16 2007,03:01)
I got a number of flash videos to work on streetfire.net and youtube, using opera, and trying to watch a few different videos.

Are you sure they were playing through flash 9?  I have no problem with youtube videos, etc., without it. Flash 7 works fine for most sites. This is similiar to the issue of sites that "require" the latest version of IE for everything to work right.....hello?  (Note: don't laugh...Comcast actually laid this on me the other day....)
Quote (jpeters @ Nov. 16 2007,03:56)
Quote (io333 @ Nov. 16 2007,03:01)
I got a number of flash videos to work on streetfire.net and youtube, using opera, and trying to watch a few different videos.

Are you sure they were playing through flash 9?  I have no problem with youtube videos, etc., without it. Flash 7 works fine for most sites. This is similiar to the issue of sites that "require" the latest version of IE for everything to work right.....hello?  (Note: don't laugh...Comcast actually laid this on me the other day....)

Absolutely, it was with flash 9, and definitely flash videos.  Here is what I did.

Installed Flash9 according to instructions in someone elses post and all the GTK stuff and firefox 1.5

Firefox 1.5 always crashed, so I also found in a post instructions for setting an alternate path with Opera to plugins, set the path to the plugins in the Firefox directory, then went and watched some flash videos in Opera.  They worked not at all the first 10 or so attemtps, and then about half the time the video would show, but with no sound -- without me doing any changes at all except to keep trying to watch different flash videos.  Weird bug.
Quote (io333 @ Nov. 16 2007,20:04)
They worked not at all the first 10 or so attemtps, and then about half the time the video would show, but with no sound -- without me doing any changes at all except to keep trying to watch different flash videos.  Weird bug.

I and others have reported similar experiences. My hunch is that the problem occurs when resources are asked for that you don't have; it's less of a problem when the video works with flash 7.  Having 2.6 apparently eliminates header problems, etc.   "Requirements: OSS developer package, meaning Linux header files (Linux 2.6.15 is known to be working)"

Personally, I see flash 9 as the problem, not DSL, and would love to see a linux alternative.  I know there are some projects currently active. This is WAR, baby!

http://wiki.gnashdev.org/wiki/index.php/Gnash

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
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