64-Bit Flash Player For Linux Finally In Alpha 172
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Luchio writes "Finally, a little bit of respect from Adobe with this alpha release of the Adobe Flash Player 10 that was made available for all Linux 64-bit enthusiasts! As noted, 'this is a prerelease version,' so handle with care. Just remove any existing Flash player and extract the new .so file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (or /usr/lib/opera/plugins)."
This isn't news... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:This isn't news... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:This isn't news... (Score:4, Informative)
No performance improvement (Score:1, Informative)
From http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/faq.html
Will application performance improve with the 64-bit Flash Player?
A 64-bit Flash Player will not necessarily result in improved application performance. The major benefit is for Flash Player to be fully compatible with 64-bit Linux distributions so that it is both easier to install and works as expected without requiring emulation.
Old news, slight revision, still broken Hulu. (Score:5, Informative)
This is another revision over previous 64-bit Flash revisions. I've been using it for months, mostly without trouble.
Around mid-January though, Hulu broke with all Linux clients running 64-bit Flash. You get "Sorry, we are unable to stream this video", and the support forum [hulu.com] is full of people reporting it. As far as I know Hulu has provided no response, and there are rumors that something related to video DRM that Hulu enabled (must be recently) is not supported in the 64-bit Flash player yet. Workarounds including using the Hulu desktop (which some report as buggy), watching at least some of the videos via Fancast (which I didn't even know existed), or using the 32-bit plugin. I just tried this 10.0.45 release and it has the same problem.
Re:This isn't news... (Score:5, Informative)
64-bit enthusiasts?
x86-64 is THE de-facto architecture. Save the enthusiast label for all the retro x86 steam punk guys.
Re:This isn't news... (Score:5, Informative)
Why exactly the submitter picked at year-and-a-bit old article as a reference for this news is still a mystery, however.
Re:Downtime is the name of the game (Score:3, Informative)
The douchebag who writes that blog can be ignored, gnash has VA-API support already.
Adobe should just fund gnash or at least find a better linux developer for their port.
Re:This isn't news... (Score:3, Informative)
Now I'll be waiting for someone to realize that the beta java plugin *just* became available....
Re:Countdown timer initiated (Score:3, Informative)