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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

Look here:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

Not only for Linux but ... for Windows as well ! (for IE9 of course)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

I would just rather, that everyone starts using flash alternatives.

Adobe has held the world hostage for too long !

For the windows version, it has a separate version for IE and other browsers. Does that mean both versions will have to be installed if someone uses multiple browsers including IE? That seems redundant

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

nice, i'll test it later

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

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Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

If someone tests it, can he/she report of it has (any) GPU acceleration ... or something ?

livibetter

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From: Taipei

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 95

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Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

If someone tests it, can he/she report of it has (any) GPU acceleration ... or something ?

I don't know if it has or not, but I could feel it runs faster. I now can watch 720p in fullscreen on YouTube smoothly. I feel like living in a dream...

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

If someone tests it, can he/she report of it has (any) GPU acceleration ... or something ?

Only on Windows, unfortunately.

edit: i can confirm it runs really smooth on 720p, also starts up quite a bit quicker than the old one. it's maxing out one of my cores though, so there's definitely no hardware acceleration (nvidia).

Last edited by litemotiv (2010-09-15 19:31:44)

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gtklocker

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Registered: 2009-09-01

Posts: 462

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

I stopped using flashplugin-native64. I completely removed flash from my system and now I use chromium + HTML5 + gnash (for some needed flash).

I'm opensourcy happy.

Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

I would just rather, that everyone starts using flash alternatives.

Adobe has held the world hostage for too long !

Offtopic:

Get back to me about that when they actually work most of the time.

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

there's a package on aur called flashplugin-square, which seems to be working ok (i'm at work using vnc, so cant fully test, but version test shows 10.2.161.22 version installed), on firefox-pgo 3.6.9, seems ok.

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Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

Nice, didn't expect them to release a new x86_64 bit version that soon. Let's see how it works; nspluginswrapper is pretty slow and unstable.

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Erus_Iluvatar

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Registered: 2010-04-01

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Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

Works, period.

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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

64-bit users rejoice!

codycarey

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Registered: 2009-08-21

Posts: 154

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

Nice, didn't expect them to release a new x86_64 bit version.

There, I corrected that for you.

pyther

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Registered: 2008-01-21

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Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

Just incase anyone is interested flash now stores the cache in ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/Cache instead of /tmp

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Lars Stokholm

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 223

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

Wow, thanks a lot. I don't care that Adobe has held us hostages for a long time. The problem is that web pages are using Flash in the first place. Adobe are only making a living and apparently they're doing okay. Kudos to them. That being said - I wouldn't mind a decent alternative at all - it just isn't available yet.

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Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

http://www.bytearray.org/?p=2088

doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 403

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

Yay! Was hoping they would release a new one soon. I know they said they would, but I didn't really believe them Well, I'll certainly try this out right now, but I have to say that 10.1 with nspluginwrapper has worked amazingly well for me recently. 1080p fullscreen Youtube videos only use ~50% CPU, and it's smooth, Flash just seems much better lately. But gonna try this now of course.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

The new 64bit flash works nicely here

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

I'm not much of a Flasher, but it seems to work well here, too.

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banshee28

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Registered: 2008-10-18

Posts: 336

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

YES! Mine actually asked to update automatically with my -Syu update today. I was previously having flash issues due to some update over the past month or so, and now flash is again working great with the latest Chromium build on my 64-bit install. Very happy so far.

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kulpae

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From: Bremen

Registered: 2010-02-06

Posts: 34

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

tested on some sites, tried some 1080p videos in fullscreen.

Amazing!

No more jerking crap on my slow box anymore! Especially on youtube while watching in fullscreen (even with 240p) while control bar or advertisment is sliding up/down, video used to stop completely with 10.0 r45. But now it's working flawlessly! thx adobe

(I still prefer html5 video tag to flash, but some sites still offer flash-only content... and html5's video is still maturing)

cheers, kulpae

Last edited by kulpae (2010-09-15 22:36:19)

radiomist

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From: superposicion

Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 64

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

wow! 720p smooth, only 30% of my core2duo 1.66Ghz

Octoploid

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 64

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

Works great. I'm glad they released a 64-bit version again.
I've been using the aging previous version till today.
It's good that one can continue to run a pure 64-bit system
without the need to install multilib.

Last edited by Octoploid (2010-09-16 12:14:06)

stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

smooth 1080p on phenom quadcore, but powernowd seems to decide to scale back every 10 seconds... all the way down to 800 mhz, causing lag.

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for any powernowd users experiencing laggy flash, move away from powernowd and look into the kernel cpufreq-ondemand governors:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cpu … _threshold

flash is smooth for me (phenom II X4) and does not enter a laggy state, as it did with powernow-k8 and powernowd.

Last edited by stefanwilkens (2010-09-16 13:33:08)

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zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,221

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Re: Hmm, new 64bit Flash plugin ?!

I didn't test this one yet (no Arch here at the office), but I'm a happy lightspark (with gnash fallback) user on 64bit. Who said the alternatives were not good enough?