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mightyjaym

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From: Nîmes, France

Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 25

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Same here. HUGE speed improvement over ndiswrapper

faelar

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From: Amiens (FR)

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 232

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Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

I switched from 32 to 64bits on sunday, and swfdec never worked... good news.
I like to think it will let many archers having a x86_64 system now !
For Christmas Santa, can you please ask to sun's guys to remove the CDDL from their ZFS filesystem ?

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Inkaine

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-07-14

Posts: 88

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Thanks for the PKGBUILD flamelab. Working wonderful here, CPU usage all normal, no peaks, not even near 100% (below 25% usually on 2x2.5GHz). Worked out of the box after installation. Great.

Is it possible to configure this not to autoplay/autoload? It doesn't seem to respect my NoScript settings like Flash does on my old 32-bit system.

It does here. I had to allow both youtube.com and ytimg.com to watch vids on Youtube as usual. Are you sure you didn't accidently create exceptions for the sites you checked. Worked on both NoScript 1.8.4.1 and after update to 1.8.5.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Works very nicely here
One step closer to being able to do rm -r /opt/arch32
Thanks for the PKGBUILD flamelab.

warlord

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 58

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Anyone tried it with konqueror 4.1.3?

xen

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Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 56

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

I've just made the switch from nspluginwrapper and I don't plan on going back

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Anyone tried it with konqueror 4.1.3?

In Konqueror, add

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

in the paths for the plugins it ought to use

then

click the button to scan for new plugins. It should work.

Same here. HUGE speed improvement over ndiswrapper

Nspluginwrapper you mean

Last edited by flamelab (2008-11-17 18:06:16)

warlord

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 58

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is in my path and I can see the plugin after the scan.
But youtube doesnt work.
I get a white box.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is in my path and I can see the plugin after the scan.
But youtube doesnt work.
I get a white box.

Half the users I contacted had success with this, unfortunately.

Personally, I couldn't watch Youtube videos even with nspluginwrapper'ed flashplugin in Konq

Last edited by flamelab (2008-11-17 18:08:06)

warlord

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 58

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

With nspluginwrapper'ed flashplugin I had no problem.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

With nspluginwrapper'ed flashplugin I had no problem.

Can't help till I find a workaround myself

If there is one, please , anyone , notify me ...

Last edited by flamelab (2008-11-17 18:13:55)

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

It works fine with opera too.

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Barrucadu

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From: York, England

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 1,158

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Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Oh my god, this works GREAT! A definite performance improvement (youtube would often stall using the 32 bit plugin), and resource usage improvement, down to 6%, compared to the 10-15% of the 32 bit plugin!

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patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Actually, always in opera, it seems to circumvent in some way the flashblocker. Initially the flash button is displayer, but after a couple of seconds the player starts without user intervention. But it is so faster and lighter than the lib32 version that perhaps I do not need to block flash applets anymore (although I hope this will be fixed in future, stable releases).

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dhave

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From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,112

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

I think it's great that a key player like Adobe is wanting to satisfy Linux users first. The explanation makes sense, of course, since it appears that Linux users have been quicker than Windows users to move up to 64-bit installations. I wonder if there are actually more Linux 64 users than Windows 64-bit users, or if it's just a higher percentage of the user base. Either way, it's a good sign that Adobe is paying attention to Linux.

Last edited by dhave (2008-11-17 19:19:42)

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skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

I think it's great that a key player like Adobe is wanting to satisfy Linux users first. The explanation makes sense, of course, since it appears that Linux users have been quicker than Windows users to move up to 64-bit installations (I wonder if that's a percentage of the user base or if it's an absolute figure). Either way, it's a good sign.

Isn't Mozilla coded on Linux first? The key to all of this was Mozilla Tamarin: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/

jdhore

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From: NYC

Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 156

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

I installed the 64-bit flash alpha...Firefox started crashing on restoring session...everytime

I'm gonna stick with flash10 + nspluginwrapper until 64-bit hits at least Beta quality

patogen

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Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 86

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

I just did an install and it complained about the MD5 sums, it says they are wrong. I removed them from the pkgbuild and everything worked fine ... but you might want to fix them... thanks for the pkgbuild and thanks for allowing me to skip the ugly hack ...

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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Anyone knowing how to get that to work with oss4?
(It works, just now sound )
EDIT: To get it to work change that part of the oss-linux-free PKGBUILD
from:

if [ `uname -m` == "i686" ]; then
cd setup/Linux/oss/lib
gcc -m32 -shared -fPIC -O2 -Wall -Werror -lssl flashsupport.c -o libflashsupport.so || return 1
cp libflashsupport.so $pkgdir/usr/lib/oss/lib/
fi

To

cd setup/Linux/oss/lib
gcc -shared -fPIC -O2 -Wall -Werror -lssl flashsupport.c -o libflashsupport.so || return 1
cp libflashsupport.so $pkgdir/usr/lib/oss/lib/

And now rebuild oss-linux-free

That's a dirty workarround - it should be properly done with if else cycle, however I don't know my PKGBUILD syntax so that's a quick fix for OSS4 users.

Last edited by Dheart (2008-11-17 20:59:38)

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deej

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Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 395

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

I think it's great that a key player like Adobe is wanting to satisfy Linux users first. The explanation makes sense, of course, since it appears that Linux users have been quicker than Windows users to move up to 64-bit installations. I wonder if there are actually more Linux 64 users than Windows 64-bit users, or if it's just a higher percentage of the user base. Either way, it's a good sign that Adobe is paying attention to Linux.

It's my experience that most 'doze users wouldn't know if they were running 8, 16, 32, or 64-bit. If it says '64-bit' on the case, then
they're happy. Try explaining the fact that they're running 32-bit to them and you can see their eyes glaze-over - they've spent
the money on 64-bit ergo they are running 64-bit.

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litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Anyone knowing how to get that to work with oss4?
(It works, just now sound )

+1

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skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

For ossv4, try this. Of course you'll have to edit the PKGBUILD for x86-64.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20327

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Posted my reply several posts up for the oss4 v4.0

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skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Of course if one were reading, they would have known the Dheart already posted about this.

Don't worry Dheart, I got your back.

warlord

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 58

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

flash plugin 64 in testing
http://archlinux.org/packages/testing/x … ashplugin/