blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html
While we are still working out exactly how to distribute the final Player version to be as easy as possible for the typical end user, this beta includes 2 gzip'd tarball packages: one is for the Mozilla plugin and the other is for a GTK-based Standalone Flash Player. Either will need to be downloaded manually via the Adobe Labs website and unpacked. The standalone Player (gflashplayer) can be run in place (after you set its executable permission). The plugin is dropped into your local plugin directory (for a local user) or the system-wide plugin directory. More thorough instructions are available in the individual packages.
October 18, 2006 04:43 PM Thank you Adobe (finally) and especially you Mike for all the hard work you have been putting into the Linux port of Flash 9! I am sure the whole Linux flash-using community appreciates this beta and awaits the final version!
October 18, 2006 04:44 PM Some feedback after quick testing. A/V is in sync (FINALLY) It loads a LOT faster than the old version. When I opened a ton of pages in tabs in firefox (and I do that a lot) I'd get a noticable lag loading the flash banners and such. That's now pretty much gone :), I had no idea it was flash causing it :P So great work!
Love it so far, just one bug so far: When there is a JavaScript menu roll-over or any object that is supposed to display over everything else, it is still pushed behind any flash objects. It is not an issue in Windows (unfortunately I use Windows at work).
October 18, 2006 05:11 PM up and running it works for the few movies i tried so far. let's go bug hunt :) /me is happy now, thank y'all for the great job...
could anybody post explicit instructions for installing on ubuntu? i guess the forums will probably have a script shortly that take care of it all, but i can't wait!
The easiest way for you to allow GNU/Linux users to get Flash 9 onto their machines would be it Adobe would grant Linux distributors permission to redistribute the Flash player itself. This would make it possible for Debian to distribute a package of the plugin in their non-free section, etc.
wrote: "When there is a JavaScript menu roll-over or any object that is supposed to display over everything else, it is still pushed behind any flash objects. It is not an issue in Windows (unfortunately I use Windows at work)."
October 18, 2006 07:09 PM The interminable wait for this once again proves the ugly nature of relying on closed source, commercial software. We will replace flash with free software, so that we never have to be beholden to the whim of a decision-maker in some corporate bureaucracy to provide proper support to the community again. Hard to argue against letting the community do the work to properly support more platforms. And I'm sure your customers will appreciate being able to fix ugly, years old bugs in their authoring environment, as well as letting their own less benighted ideas about client architecture find expression as well. Go on, tell yourself how implausible and unlikely this is.
And one in the eye to one of my colleagues (a windows lover) who noted no less than three bugs that exist in the Windows version are not present under Linux (1, correct use of non -us keyboard layout in text entry fields.
October 18, 2006 08:03 PM Anyone managed to make the plugin run with 64-bit Firefox? The standalone player appears to work on 64-bits, but I didn't test anything with sound.
October 18, 2006 08:24 PM Mike deserves a lot of our gratitude for so diligently keeping all of the blog viewers current and informed. Yet, I know there are plenty of people far less visible who worked feverishly through a labyrinth of obstacles to get us this far, so I just want to thank absolutely everyone who contriubted to even the slightest degree. Now we know that the final release will be at least as good as this Beta appears to be!
October 18, 2006 08:24 PM Much love, thanks for sticking with us through the good and the bad. We, the community, will continue to try and give you as much help (through the proper bug reporting channels) as you want. PS I never thought I would be so excited to have menu text.
org dapper 3v1n0 apt-get update && apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree flashplugin-nonfree (there's a debconf screen to install it becouse you need to accept the Adobe Labs EULA) Bye!
Will the standalone Flash Player (gflashplayer) also be available for download when the Player plugin is released? Or will it take the same end like under Windows, where you have to have Flash itself to get a standalone player?
October 18, 2006 10:06 PM "Not to sound ungrateful, but the sound doesn't work if you're on a 64-bit system. so apt-get install lib32asound2 or sudo apt-get install lib32asound2 or use adept/synaptic/yaST/yum/etc ...
October 18, 2006 10:13 PM Mike: I want to thank you and the rest of your team @Adobe for publishing this beta. Until now, the Flash Player 9 Beta is working great under Ubuntu 606 Dapper Drake.
It worked for me and it really works quite fine (using a 32 bit Firefox on a 64 bit platform). Just one minor question: will this plugin use SSE or SSE2 CPU features if they are availible?
October 19, 2006 12:20 AM Mike, thank you for your work! Thank you for your patience with the us, the Linux crowd :-) However, the real work still has to be done - convincing the Adobe management that is good for Adobe to open up at least the Flash specifications, as with the PDF specs. Please keep bothering your bosses with that issue - your voice will be heard.
This is just what I need first thing in the morning :-) Works fine (with sound) using 32-bit Firefox on SuSE 101 Ditto for Konqueror. Not a single problem, and the 'take one file and put it somewhere' install is too easy. Tried a few of our Flex 2 apps already, which is remoting to ColdFusion 7, and they work fine too. Great, great work - you are going to make so many people happy !
October 19, 2006 01:59 AM Eythian - I get the same thing with nspluginwrapper. I can get to the page linked about that tells me I have the version successfully installed, but anything more advanced than that just breaks. Hopefully they'll update nspluginwrapper since adobe seems reluctant to post a 64-bit plugin for any OS at this point.
I've been testing this new Flash for one hour now and it seems to work fine with this Ubuntu 610 Edgy Eft test version. Another important piece of software is finally coming to Linux.
You should just allow all the Linux distributors to package the flash player themselves. Leave the task of "making it easy to install" to them, they know better than you.
I bet you're going to explode your average number of comments. Is there a way to search submitted bugs and follow their status? It could be great both for adobe's people as they would have less duplicate bugs to process, and for users as they could watch a bug for its resolution or workaround.
October 19, 2006 07:11 AM It's with great joy that I see this news. I need to support a dozen of desktops and have been receiving and increasing number of complains as webdesigners adopt flash8 and flash9 into their websites. Togheter with other little "oddities", I was seeing a difficult path for keeping my linux installation.. I hope this is now a turn-point on desktop support for all those proprietary formats that are keeping us away of our preferred OS .
Work with the various distibutions to set up a package and repository for each. White a simple cross platform istaller that checks the system to determine distibution, then installs a repository package, does a package install from that repository for the real software. That way, your install can look as nice as you want, but the package is managed by the system.
It can install programs both system wide (with root password), or into the users $HOME directory. It also has binary compatibility code that makes it a lot easier to run the same binary on different distros.
October 19, 2006 08:50 AM I've searched for half an hour to find this info but could not find it: Does anyone know a link to a page that describes which video codecs Flash 9 supports?
October 19, 2006 09:13 AM Hey Mike, For curiosity sake, would ...
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