Flash 7 for Linux Released 471
molarmass192 writes "Looks like Macromedia has finally made good on their word and provided Linux with a current version of Flash player. Improvements over Flash 6 include a speed boost and support for SOAP. Here's the requisite download link. I took a few seconds to get it set up and the response is noticeably snappier than version 6. In particular, the audio/video sync problems in version 6 seems to have been taken care of. Now, I wonder where they hid that Shockwave player for Linux?"
Also available as package (Score:5, Informative)
Now if only they'd fix the bloody menus. (Score:2, Informative)
Misnomer title (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Now if only... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Now if only they'd fix the bloody menus. (Score:2, Informative)
A Speedup Trick... (Score:5, Informative)
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=176167 [gentoo.org]
The gist of it is setting an environment var:
export FLASH_GTK_LIBRARY=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
People in the Gentoo forum are claming massive speed increases when viewing flash. I'm about to go try it now...
--Ajay
Re:Now if only they'd fix the bloody menus. (Score:2, Informative)
Some designers opt to not have the menu show up in their Flash, and set this in the containing page's source code.
So if you a menu doesn't pop up on right click, it isn't Macromedia's fault, its how the web designer wants it to be.
Re:Now if only... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Now if only... (Score:4, Informative)
Re: With version 7, this trick is no longer needed (Score:4, Informative)
Re:A Speedup Trick... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Also available as package (Score:4, Informative)
Still, the counter is somewhat questionable, as it puts the user under pressure, without haveing a positive effect I can think of.
Re:Read the EULA? (Score:1, Informative)
From US Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Sec. 117: (btw, IANAL)
(a) Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy. -
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner...
The law works around stupid terms like this one.
Re:Whoa... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Flash + Wine is on its way, they claim (Score:2, Informative)
Works great with Konqueror! (Score:3, Informative)
Works fine with Mozilla, Firefox, also.
Didn't test it with Epiphany etc.
Re:Read the EULA? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Read the EULA? (Score:3, Informative)
3. You may not use the Software on a network or more than one PC.
- emphasis mine.
Although these days the intent is somewhat clearer from reading the rest of the agreement, there was a time when it wasn't.
I was helping a strapped for cash organisation legitimise their software, and we decided to see if we could find a free virus scanner before forking out cash for one. So I shot off an email asking them to clarify what they meant by 'a network', pointing out that the internet is a network, and one assumes you can have an internet network connection since the software has an email scanner... After a week they sent an email back repeating the the above clause with the word 'network' capitalised.... Sigh, I don't think they got the point....
We ended up paying for a virus scanner, but didn't end up buying it from them.
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Re:Downloading from a windows box? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Um, Dude (Score:3, Informative)
Second of all, you're full of shit, it's not your computer, it's their content, in some cases artwork, and they can decide how they want it viewed/experianced.
You can choose to not view it or view it as the artist intended.
As for a volume knob, it seems that windows programs stopped having them a while ago (or if they did they simply controlled the system volume) and AFAIK, most linux programs never did (the onese that exist simply control the system mixer)
Re:No, Seriously. . . (Score:3, Informative)
Troll. Just have a look at this: google for hello world in flash [google.com]
And this: swfstrings [quiss.org]
Still, I think you're right about the fact that Flash is an annoying Internet pollution and should not be over-used in menus or content. But saying one cannot google or grep it is a lie.
Re:Now if only... (Score:5, Informative)
Would you migrate???
Would you buy...???
I guess they got enough positive response to start making authoring tools. You can read press releases for your self on Macromedia
First version will be Wine based, probably Crossover, second is the native version.
Re:How lovely (Score:3, Informative)
A tip for my fellow Flash haters: delete mozilla's null plugin. Then it'll stop bugging you about downloading Flash.
(Damn, I guess I won't get to see the latest movie sites. Fortunately I don't care about them. Or the latest movies either.)
Re:You, sir (madam?) are a buffoon... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:mod parent up (Score:4, Informative)
But you recall wrong. The Navy is moving to Microsoft Windows. The NMCI [navy.mil] is all Microsoft [fcw.com].
That, and #3b and 2b (Score:3, Informative)
Clause 3g reads "don't compete with us", clause 3b read "don't even think about it".
Reads: Here's your notice if case we wish to track you or your usage of the software.
Re:Now if only... (Score:2, Informative)
Here is an article about the Flash Forward conference where we showed Flash MX running on Linux:
http://news.com.com/Macromedia+to+test+Linux+su
Note, if we do move our tools to linux, it will probably be via some emulation layer (such as wine or code weaver's cross office plugin)
http://www.codeweavers.com/
mike chambers
mesh@macromedia.com
Re:What good is a 64-bit browser? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Macromedia showing lack of Linux commitment (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Now if only... (Score:2, Informative)
In the interview a few weeks back, it seemed like codeweavers was doing fairly well selling crossover to desktop as opposed to corporate users.
an "open" specification (Score:3, Informative)
A snippet from the press release: "Because the Flash format is vector-based, Flash content is bandwidth efficient and scales automatically to display as designed in any Web browser. The Flash file format (.swf) is an open standard: any software vendor can output Flash files by writing to the specification published on Macromedia's Web site at www.flash.com/open."
(note - if you want the spec, you should really be here [macromedia.com] instead. But again, when you download it, you agree not to transmit the spec to anyone else, and there's a rule in the license which basically amounts to "the player you design should actually work before you release it.")