Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:34:31 -0500 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Dimiter Ivanov <erazorbg@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash player 9 Beta is Live Message-ID: <20061019123431.67f44b59@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20061019170850.GA60680@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <7cc8007f0610190832u5b5f637dv756ca91d5f99d770@mail.gmail.com> <20061019170850.GA60680@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006, at 13:08:50 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:32:14PM +0300, Dimiter Ivanov wrote: > > > http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html > > > > I have downloaded the stand alone player and it works out of the > > box. Anyone having expirience with the browser plugin ? > > > > I'm using 6.1 Release and KDE 3.5.4 > > OK. That sounds promising. > > But, is this limited to KDE or how about plain Firefox running > on plain ole FreeBSD 6.1 with a fairly plain Windows manager? > Does it requite the Lunix compatibility stuff? Yes, the plugin would need the Linux compatibility and a Linux binary browser (such as linux-firefox or linux-opera). I tried the standalone version yesterday on FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE [amd64] and I couldn't get the standalone version to play anything (it would just not do anything when opening files -- just sits at the white background of the window). I did try the Linux browser plugin along with linux-opera and it worked somewhat. It played the visual elements of Flash OK, however there is no sound since they're using ALSA for the sound in version 9. I also noticed that after playing Flash content, the area where the content was would turn a solid grey color and it seemed to lock the browser up a bit. If I closed out of that tab it seemed to be OK. Normally I have Flash disabled for all but a couple sites since it uses up tons of RAM and really slows down the browser after use (version 7 at least), so I unloaded 9 and went back to 7 for now where sound at least works. Hopefully Adobe will add in alternate sound support methods so other platforms besides Linux can have sound like in version 7, and of course I hope they release a native FreeBSD binary sometime too so we can use native browsers. -Mark -- Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941)
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