Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Jun 2010 22:59 UTC
It's been a very long wait, but the release is finally here: Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1. Since Flash has come under increasing scrutiny, there's a lot at stake here for Adobe. This release is supposed to use far less resources while still being faster, more stable, and more secure. Update: No 64bit Flash player for now - on any platform. The Linux beta has been axed.
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RE[3]: Comment by zoinksbob
by bitwelder on Fri 11th Jun 2010 06:19
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Member since:2010-04-27
Hardware acceleration for Flash on Linux is non-existent. I've got VDPAU for Mplayer using Nvidia for my H.264 very recently, so spare me the Jobs is late to the ball game crap.
You're comparing a walled garden of apples to an open field of oranges.
Jobs is paid megabucks to provide above-average, bleeding-edge, psychedelic experience to his customers.
In the GNU/Linux development I don't see this kind of commitment (and you see it from industry attitude to Linux versions)
That said, yes Flash is still bloatware.
RE[3]: Comment by zoinksbob
by molnarcs on Fri 11th Jun 2010 08:40
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Member since:2005-09-10
I dunno, flash has been working very well on my linux laptop since the new betas. Below you can see me playing a 720p youtube video. My CPU utilization is 66%, but they are not throttled - running at 800Mhz only!They can go up to 2500Mhz (I'm using ondemand cpu governor).
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9y6k-s1Bj0aDHwCFqJdg6A?feat=di...
Flash version:
Name : flashplugin
Version : 10.0.45.2-1
URL : http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : flashplayer
Depends On : mozilla-common libxt gtk2 nss curl
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : flashplugin-beta
Installed Size : 11735.00 K
Packager : Giovanni Scafora <giovanni@archlinux.org>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Fri 12 Feb 2010 04:21:50 AM ICT
Install Date : Sun 11 Apr 2010 02:53:34 PM ICT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description : Adobe Flash Player
RE[3]: Comment by zoinksbob
by _txf_ on Fri 11th Jun 2010 20:06
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Member since:2008-03-17
H264 acceleration on osx IS a joke. It only supports the quicktime implementation (therefore practically anything encoded with x264 fails). VDPAU has been out for a fairly long time now and pretty much accelerates anything under the sun xvid,vc-1, and h264.
I imagine that is why video is still crappy (on osx) compared to something like vdpau.
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Blame Apple for total lameness, as always. I to hated flash on my mac, now it's been resting on a shelf for 13 months, I should really be faster in mailing them but it's so f--king disturbing.
Try it in Windows on the same machine and I'm sure things will improve ..
Hardware acceleration for Flash on Linux is non-existent. I've got VDPAU for Mplayer using Nvidia for my H.264 very recently, so spare me the Jobs is late to the ball game crap.
I don't have video players spanning multiple cores running OpenMP on Linux and seeing my cores barely being touched.
I'm seeing a single core still running VLC with Red Cliff II at 10% utilization.
Yet, if I have this in Flash it'll throttle my CPU.
Sorry, but Flash is a pig.