AMD64 Flash Port

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hjh · Post by **hjh** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:42 am

also added my bit

sanmartin · Post by **sanmartin** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:06 am

Are there any possible extenuating circumstances that might be preventing Macromedia/Adobe from recompiling this for 64-bit? I mean it's not like it should be written in assembly or anything like that. It'd be nice if we could just get someone from Macromedia to give us a reason for the delay. Anyone know someone who works there that we might be able to ask? I really wanna know what the holdup is. I want my flash!

VValdo · Post by **VValdo** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:30 am

See here and then see here for a semi-workable solution.

I would also like to propose a second solution, which is to get WINE and install the Win32 version of firefox & flash. It works great for me, so I have the (1) nspluginwrapper (crashes firefox ocassionally) and (2) the WINE version, which is much more stable.

if you do get wine, make sure to do the following before emerging:

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echo ">=app-emulation/wine-2005" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

That is, mask out anything starting with wine-2005, since those are older than 0.9.5, which is a bug with how the various wine versions have been numbered. 0.9.5 is the newest, which compiled fine for me w/~amd64 (you may also need to add to package.keywords if you're using straight amd64.)

Hope this helps... to install Flash in wine, first use the Firefox installer, then the flash installer for windows. Install the plugin into ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/plugins

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NewBlackDak · Post by **NewBlackDak** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:55 am

Did it

_asc_ · Post by **_asc_** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:11 am

sanmartin wrote: Are there any possible extenuating circumstances that might be preventing Macromedia/Adobe from recompiling this for 64-bit? I mean it's not like it should be written in assembly or anything like that. It'd be nice if we could just get someone from Macromedia to give us a reason for the delay. Anyone know someone who works there that we might be able to ask? I really wanna know what the holdup is. I want my flash!

http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/12/flash ... pdate.html

_asc_ · Post by **_asc_** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:54 pm

Hello!

Has anyone tried Gnash http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ ?

According to this german news-article (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68176) it is still under development but superior to other solutions since it supports flash 7.

alveraan · Post by **alveraan** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:28 am

_asc_ wrote:Hello!

Has anyone tried Gnash http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ ?

According to this german news-article (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68176) it is still under development but superior to other solutions since it supports flash 7.

Yeah I read that one too. There's an ebuild in portage now. See this forum thread: open source Flashplayer - a solution?. VERY interesting, I'm gonna try to install it. But still I think the web should be completely freed of that proprietary macromedia bullsh*t

Edit: Shit, the ebuild is x86 only.

immudium · Post by **immudium** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:13 am

alveraan wrote:
_asc_ wrote:Hello!

Has anyone tried Gnash http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ ?

According to this german news-article (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68176) it is still under development but superior to other solutions since it supports flash 7.
Yeah I read that one too. There's an ebuild in portage now. See this forum thread: open source Flashplayer - a solution?. VERY interesting, I'm gonna try to install it. But still I think the web should be completely freed of that proprietary macromedia bullsh*t

Edit: Shit, the ebuild is x86 only.

LOL! I found that extremely amusing after all the build up. Luckily though, I don't think it's anything to worry about too much. Seems like the sources just need to be patched up a little so there's still hope for a non-proprietary, native 64 bit solution as far as I can tell from the mailing lists.

axelmasok · Post by **axelmasok** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:58 am

I must say, it's been years since this was a problem for us 64bit'ers. I think it's outrageous. It must be the most overlooked and annoying problem we have in the AMD64 world. When will it end? It's not funny anymore. Either someone come up with a OS alternative or Macrodobe state they will not release a version for us period.

Martyr · Post by **Martyr** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:47 am

done =)

mikemcquaid · Post by **mikemcquaid** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:37 pm

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

Rather than waiting around for Macromedia's half-assed proprietary effort, that will probably never even happen, give this a try.
It's GNU's effort, and is meant to be pretty good. Anyone fancy making an ebuild?

babo · Post by **babo** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:13 pm

ebuild is made allready

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emerge gnash

but it does not support the plugin, couse it doesn't work properly as I understand.

whtwtr · Post by **whtwtr** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:02 pm

I'm in...

64-bit mozilla plugin support requested
Cheers!

Belliash · Post by **Belliash** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:31 am

OK, We will have 64-bif Firefox, flash and Java.
What about plugin for mplayer? I'm watching movies from web pages sometimes.

herbo · Post by **herbo** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:40 am

rafkup wrote:OK, We will have 64-bif Firefox, flash and Java.
What about plugin for mplayer? I'm watching movies from web pages sometimes.

Mplayerplug-in works fine in 64bit mode.... The binary only codecs don't though (e.g wmv9 - for these you need mplayer-bin), I guess thats what you mean.

Belliash · Post by **Belliash** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:42 pm

herbo wrote:
rafkup wrote:OK, We will have 64-bif Firefox, flash and Java.
What about plugin for mplayer? I'm watching movies from web pages sometimes.
Mplayerplug-in works fine in 64bit mode.... The binary only codecs don't though (e.g wmv9 - for these you need mplayer-bin), I guess thats what you mean.

exactly.
There's no win64codecs.

thagame · Post by **thagame** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:19 am

Trevoke wrote:C'mon guys, just gotta wait for Longhorn!
Longhorn is coming out in 2004! No, wait.. 2005!
No.. Summer 2005... No? 2006? Okay then.
Longhorn will have a sweet-ass filesystem.. No, wait.. That'll come out separately ...
Longhorn will be 64-bit... Right? Well, maybe..
Ok, forget I said anything.

way to add a stupid and very pointless comment in a post about flash working

KaZiber · Post by **KaZiber** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:49 pm

Is this working ?
http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/

mikemcquaid · Post by **mikemcquaid** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:12 pm

KaZiber wrote:Is this working ?
http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/

No, and at their rate of progress compared to GNASH, its never likely to.
Watch GNASH, they seem to be closest to getting a working OSS solution.

thagame · Post by **thagame** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:14 pm

the adobe dev site has flash 8.5. i dont know if theres a linux version of it yet but i i recall the devs saying they didnt do a linux 8.0 cause they were in the works of 8.5 and are just gonna make that version linux.

infirit · Post by **infirit** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:08 pm

mikearthur wrote:
KaZiber wrote:Is this working ?
http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/
No, and at their rate of progress compared to GNASH, its never likely to.
Watch GNASH, they seem to be closest to getting a working OSS solution.

Actually they most likely will join the gnash team.

Anaki · Post by **Anaki** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:24 pm

done!

John2583 · Post by **John2583** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:02 pm

I sent my feature request.

P0ldy · Post by **P0ldy** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:32 am

I sent a request in... but if there's a 64bit version of XP, why don't we have win64codecs? What is the MS solution--do they use emulation? Or has it just not been hacked out of XP yet... ?

piercey · Post by **piercey** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:12 am

afaik only the core system is 64bit in XP64bit, but i may be wrong.

AMD64 Flash Port

A solution AT LAST!

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