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Intrepid

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 254

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

This is great.  I would get blank screens with nspluginwrapper.  Now it works very well.  I used to use youtube-dl with smplayer for video (on an older machine when flash was slower), but buffering took too long compared to most videos' dragging the slider.

It is IMPORTANT to add that Flash support is now possible in Midori and other Webkit browsers in Arch64!  Yay webkit!

Last edited by Intrepid (2008-12-02 08:51:09)

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Except that Midori still crashes on Youtube searches.

ssl6

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 594

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

i figured out my problem with flash causing firefox to crash on me, on my 64 bit install at least. i changed some firewall settings on my router, activex control filtering and something else. turns out that was causing my problems with hotmail and flash not working on my other system as well as windows update not working on the computers upstairs......oops

just mentioned this as i saw a few people had flash cause crashes.

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AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

Except that Midori still crashes on Youtube searches.

expect a new libwebkit snapshot and midori bump soon

methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

I just switched from nspluginwrapper/nspluginwrapper-flash to the flashplugin-alpha-64 from AUR and all I have to say is that I have never seen certain sites like "nba.com" work so perfectly. Usually the drop-down menus in the top navi-bar would open behind the scoreboard (which used to be blank).

So far everything works, with some sites working much better.

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

There's a new release of 64 bit Flash. It's way better on CPU usage. I was showing an average of around 7% usage spread over two cores on Google Video. The menu issues seem to be fixed. And, full screen is working better in some places.

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

I have marked it as outofdate also in the AUR (for those not using the testing repo). It is enough to upgrade the version number in the PKGBUILD though.

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toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

changed the PKGBUILD version to the new one, installed, working great! thanks!

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Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

The last update seem to ve very laggy for me when it comes to video playback.

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whaler

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 323

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

The last update works very well here, for casual viewing, but still makes Firefox crash on too many pages, like this one:

http://lp.aftenposten.no/ego/F_HV_4-1/h … 767757.ece

Linux.com is another problematic site...

On the other hand, MPlayerplug-in cannot stream Aftenposten's own video format, whatever that is. Example:

http://www.aftenposten.no/webtv/?id=12473

Guess we must resort to what we non-Windows users are best at - wait and hope.

The_ouroboros

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From: Pavia, Italy

Registered: 2007-05-28

Posts: 140

Re: 64-bit Flash....Finally

how's the situation going nowaday?

Last edited by The_ouroboros (2009-01-03 22:45:20)

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