flash 9 beta !!!

beatryder · Veteran Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html

Check it out, I just downloaded it and tested it in Konqueror and it worked GREAT!
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matrixhax0r · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 63

The ebuild for it is really simple so I made a patch here:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140965
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shepmaster · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 94

Have you gotten sound to work? I cant seem to get sound on youtube or ytmnd. Thoughts?

EDIT: I do have all the libraries the Flash blog listed earlier, but I am on x86_64.
EDIT2: I disabled the nspluginwrapper i was using for the old flash, and everything seems peachy, cound and all. Yay!

Zyzzyva100 · Apprentice Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 193

Works for me in firefox. All I had to do was copy the libflash.so into my mozilla plugins folder and flash works better than ever! Finally!

Serinox · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 91

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html

anybody willing to take the risk and tell us if it works?

if not i'll try later on and let you all know how things are workin.
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Master Shake · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:22 pm Post subject:

if someone writes an ebuild I'm all over that.
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tanisek · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 44 Location: Poland

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-508659.html

Serinox · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 91

its one file you don't even have to compile anything, just tried it out for my self and everything is going great. just drag and drop the libflashplayer into /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/ and overwrite the existing file and your in business.
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Master Shake · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject:

Works fine for me. Is it SMP enabled? Also has anyone else noticed that it takes alot of system resources to run?
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Bornio · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 129

and still no 64bit version... SIGH!

immudium · Guru Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 323 Location: Utah

Aww and I was having such fun holding a bitter grudge against the unending deluge of incompatible flash content only to realize I'm a man of weak principles as I happily skip off to the Battlestar Galactica website which I haven't been able to peruse in what seems like decades...

herbo · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject:

For a kludge of a 64bit solution, nspluginwrapper works pretty well.....

Using the ebuild in an earlier post plus nspluginwrapper (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138454) and it all worked fine sans sound. In order to get sound; install app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs as well.

Thus, flash 9 + nspluginwrapper 0.9.90.1 + app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs = flash capabilities in 64 bit (only Firefox 2 rc3, 64bit anyway). A random sample of of clips from youtube worked okay...

P.S Beware of nspluginwrapper though, it sometimes causes very high cpu usage (well it did on flash7, I have not enough time to test flash9), so it is certainly not perfect, but better than nothing.

pjp · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject:

Merged 2 threads.
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acid7711 · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 55 Location: Chicago

Aweeeeeesome. It's about freaking time man. Thanks for the heads up. It works perfect, and before you mentioned it I had no idea it was even out.

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nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

parsim · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject:

Oh frabjus day!

Downloaded the Beta 9 plugin, extracted libflashplayer.so, copied it over the top of my old one, and ta-da!

On AMD64 running firefox-bin-1.5.0.7.

ebanoac · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 5

Is it just my computer, or the link for the Linux installer isn't working???

Can someone pls send me this file by e-mail? I will be very gratefull ! ebanoac@gmail.com

Tonglebeak · Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 292

I was elated at first, now I am saddened.

It does not work in my 64-bit firefox 1.5.0.7 w/nspluginwrapper. npviewer.bin (nspluginwrapper's executable) locks firefox and does nothing more. Firefox is unresponsive until npview.bin is killed.

Dammit!

Serinox · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 91

really i've tried this with firefox-bin, and the normal firefox without problem.
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parsim · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:20 am Post subject:

Been playing with it for a few hours now, and while it works perfectly most of the time, I've had a couple of lockups, too. So there are definitely some bugs still to be worked out.

irondog · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:53 am Post subject:

Finally an ALSA based Flash. Die OSS, die, die, die.
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castor_fou · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:32 am Post subject:

from my previous flash plugin installation, I have 2 files: libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt.

What is this last .xpt file and do I need to recreate it for flash plugin 9.x ?

pussi · l33t Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 727 Location: Finland

yoshi314 · l33t Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 663 Location: PL

it's funny that firefox still shows "Shockwave Flash 7.0 r68" in about:plugins page :]

however right-click on flash anim shows "about flash player 9" menu. so it apparently works correctly :]
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