Monday, 17. November 2008, 11:14:02
video, plugin, hd, h264
...
One of most feature requests of Linux users about Flash was a 64bit Flash Player,
Adobe make it now happend. This is the first 64bit Flash Player at all, a version for Mac OS X and Windows will follow later. But it isn't final yet, some functionality is still missing: camera, microphone, fullscreen via OpenGL.
The 64bit Flash Player isn't faster then the 32bit. For more performance
Tinic Uro, a Adobe Flash developer, recommended to disable the nspluginwrapper. Bugs of the 64bit Flash Player can be reported at
Adobe Bugs.
Wednesday, 5. November 2008, 16:47:36
video, ogg, codec
The free video codec
Ogg Theora reaches now the final state. Ogg Theora is open source and based on the VP3 codec of On2 Technologies. Ogg Theora includes a new and faster decoder and will be used for the OLPC project too. Upcoming versions of the browser Firefox will support it by default.
Thursday, 16. October 2008, 06:38:32
video, plugin, hd, h264
...
Adobe published now the
final Flash Player 10. This version brings a lot of improvements to the Linux platform. Now the Linux Flash Player has the same features as on any other platform. For more details check out the
feature page.
Best of all Adobe provides now
a Deb archive for Ubuntu 8.04 but they use their own file structure and it seems there is no 64bit build again
To enjoy Flash Player 10 without smashing your Ubuntu:- extract the Deb archive (do not install it)
- extract the data.tar.gz
- copy as root the file "install_flash_player_10_linux/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so" to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree"
Tuesday, 16. September 2008, 08:19:37
video, plugin, hd, h264
...
Adobe published again a release candidate of the
Flash Player 10. This version brings a lot of improvements to the Linux platform:
* optimized sound sound API and sound buffer
* windowless overlay mode now working (Firefox 3 required)
* new embedding modes (
explained by the developer Tinic Uro)
* support for the Video4Linux 2
All details about Flash Player 10 can be found at the
release notes. And of course the beta 2 is
available for Linux too.
Download it and copy the binaries as root to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree". Shutdown your browswer and restart it, open the url "about:plugins" to make sure it's available.
Tuesday, 2. September 2008, 15:14:17
video, plugin, hd, h264
...
Adobe published the release candidare of the
Flash Player 10. This version brings a lot of improvements to the Linux platform:
* optimized sound sound API and sound buffer
* windowless overlay mode now working (Firefox 3 required)
* new embedding modes (
explained by the developer Tinic Uro)
* support for the Video4Linux 2
All details about Flash Player 10 can be found at the
release notes. And of course the beta 2 is
available for Linux too.
Download it and copy the binaries as root to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree". Shutdown your browswer and restart it, open the url "about:plugins" to make sure it's available.
Thursday, 3. July 2008, 08:06:39
video, plugin, hd, h264
...
Adobe released a second beta of the
Flash Player 10. This version brings a lot of improvements to the Linux platform:
* optimized sound sound API and sound buffer
* windowless overlay mode now working (Firefox 3 required)
* new embedding modes (
explained by the developer Tinic Uro)
* support for the Video4Linux 2
Older details about Flash Player 10 can be found in my older post or at the
release notes. And of course the beta 2 is
available for Linux too.
Download it and copy the binaries as root to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree". Shutdown your browswer and restart it, open the url "about:plugins" to make sure it's available.
Thursday, 15. May 2008, 17:03:11
video, plugin, hd, h264
...
Adobe released today a
first beta of the Flash Player 10.
This version brings a lot more hardware acceleration to Flash and makes it more, more powerfull. Now raster images, video overlays and effects will be rendered with
OpenGL 2.0 directly on the graphics board.
With the new
Pixel Bender language it will be easy for designers to create own effects too. Best of all this beta is
released for Linux too.
Download it and copy the binaries as root to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree". Shutdown your browswer and restart it, open the url "about:plugins" to make sure it's available.
Friday, 22. February 2008, 23:44:16
video, plugin, hd, h264
...
Adobe is working on an update for its Flash player 9 that will bring DRM to Flash. Since the popularity of Flash video and the support for H.264 the music and film industry like to get back control of the streamed content. This step could stop the development of
Gnash and
SWFdec, two alternatives to Adobes Flash player, too.
Read more about the
dark side of Adobe at the EFF.org.
Wednesday, 5. December 2007, 17:48:07
hd, video, plugin, audio
...
Adobe releases the third update of the Flash plugin. This Update includes a lot of new features like support for H.264 video and the High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio codec. This pushes Flash to HD quality and allowing you to play back existing MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP, and 3G2 content. Many performance improvements were made too.
Installing the new version from the
Tar binary archive is easy, just copy the "libflashplayer.so" as root to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree" (check the correct permissons).
(53%)
WIDGETIZE