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Flash on PowerPC Linux?
George Wright asks: "One of the missing links to make PPC Linux more complete is the lack of a MacroMedia Flash plugin. Several people have been caught out by this, but someone has (finally) decided to petition for it. For those people that don't know what Flash is, check it out
here. How about some support?"
I've only ever seen two kinds of Flash: funny and annoying. I would gladly, oh yes, gladly do without one so that I am spared the other!
Sure, that would be great to have. Macromedia has been giving PPC Linux the cold shoulder lately, and I'm happy to be on the petition.
By the way, wouldn't this be better suited to a News section rather than Ask Slashdot?
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subject says it all. don't they bark all the time about a 99% infiltration rate into the browsers nowadays?
aah forget it.
I think it's safe to assume there are far more people who don't know what a PPC (or, a..spoon) is than what Flash is.
Please don't port Flash to Linux/PPC
Move it to PPC from another platform.
I hope it is moved from Win xx as this will have the greatest short term benefit for mankind.
Next move it from Linux/i386 to Atari 2600.
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Here: http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/
Use swfdec.
... we all know how well ONLINE PETITIONS work. If I were the CEO of a company, I know that's the first place I'd look.
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Now I can get the fancy advertising...
Hopefully this will result in a speedier version for all PPC OSs, like OS X. Complex Flash right now will make about any Mac cry under the load, even a G4 with a nice vector unit going unused.
I actually like flash, but unfortunately, I don't use it under Linux, because its sooooo darned instable. And since I'm Windows-free, it also means I'm flash-free.
Why don't we petition Macromedia to fix the stability of the x86 version before having them embark on something like PPC?
Before we start griping about a Flash player for PPC Linux, how about we gripe about a Flash player that works decently under ANY Linux?
Specifically, I have noticed that Flash under Linux runs like Unreal on a 286, even on my Dual-P3 1GHz with a AIW7500. CPU load during playback is not close to 100% of one CPU, but I get a slideshow poorly synced with the sound. Of course, on Windows running on one processor of the same machine I get a very smooth playback well synced to the sound (as well as a dirty, slimey feeling that showering just doesn't get rid of).
I'm not running ESD or any other sound daemon, so that's not it.
And don't tell me that "X is slow" - bullshit. I work on an X based test instrument and can shove more graphics down the card than the DSPs can generate. It's just that Slackromediocre have put no effort into making Flash run worth a crap on anything that has a lower case x in the name.
Now, given that they have started this effort to make Flash the "thin-client solution", don't you think they ought to make it work well on a thin client?
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Make sure you're talking about the Macromedia player. The macromedia player for me, under x86, is great. Fast, never crashes.
swfdec, which i use on my PowerPC machine is very slow and crashes often. It cannot play many files. However, it is good enough for use on my PowerPC machine for my own use; however, I would certainly not call it stable enough for my mother, my grandmother, or even my wife.
I mean the Macromedia players versions 4,5, and 6, downloaded directly from Macromedia.com.
I have yet to see one of them that ran more than 6 frames/second.
Try going to the "Thomas Timberwolf" pages over at WB, and playing those.
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I wish web designers would STOP using Flash as a web site navigation tool. I can't recall how many sites I've visited only to find out that if I don't have Flash, I can't view the site at all!! This sucks. It seems to me it violates the whole spirit of a markup language that can work on any platform. But as moron "animation is more important than substance" web designers force more and more of this tripe onto corporate web sites, we are either all forced to "get Flash", even if, as some posts point out, it is buggy, or not use the site.
In the case of PPC/Linux users, you simply hit the "back" button, curse, and don't bother to use the site. In most cases, its annoying, but there have been a few times when this has really pissed me off.