64-bit Adobe Flash Linux Support Is Back

[cliff]

The porn industry is supporting html5 video so flash is already dying. I'm not against flash as a vector animation plugin. It's great in that role, but as a video player it's a complete pile of absolute crap.

Not that I would look, but exactly which site is that?

[crazycheese]

Phoronix: 64-bit Adobe Flash Linux Support Is Back

SUDDENLY.

I think I have a "flash back".

>: P

[DeepDayze]

I think that people who use ijunk don't have a brain and therefore are incapable of caring.

Droids all the way!

[balihb]

The only sad thing is that this version wont save flv videos into /tmp/Flash*

Or at least it deletes it. In /proc/<PID>/fd the descriptor says deleted:
16 -> /tmp/FlashXXU1p1aq (deleted)

[droidhacker]

The thing that is REALLY disturbing about "flash video" is that you ***DON'T NEED FLASH OR HTML5*** to embed a video in a web page!

Just throw it in an < embed src = "path/to/video" > tag
** it'll either launch it into a media player, or if you have a media player plugin (like mplayerplug-in), it'll load it right into the browser.

This has worked since about firefox 1.0... or maybe even before that.

[Fenix-TX]

The thing that is REALLY disturbing about "flash video" is that you ***DON'T NEED FLASH OR HTML5*** to embed a video in a web page!

Just throw it in an < embed src = "path/to/video" > tag
** it'll either launch it into a media player, or if you have a media player plugin (like mplayerplug-in), it'll load it right into the browser.

This has worked since about firefox 1.0... or maybe even before that.

<EMBED ...> is not a part of the HTML 4 or xHTML 1 specifications, but it is still widely supported by modern browsers. Unlike other tags, the attributes used by <EMBED ...> depend on the type of plugin being used (this odd free-attribute concept is why <EMBED ...> has been rejected by the HTML standards makers).

from http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/embe...ts/_EMBED.html

[chithanh]

The standards compliant element is <object> which has been around for a long time (maybe even longer than <img>). But browser support for this is not so great.

[not.sure]

The only sad thing is that this version wont save flv videos into /tmp/Flash*

Or at least it deletes it. In /proc/<PID>/fd the descriptor says deleted:
16 -> /tmp/FlashXXU1p1aq (deleted)

Did anyone find a workaround to get the /tmp files back?

[spikestabber]

Just incase you're not aware, you can copy the file descriptor from /proc/<PID>/fd if you want the file.....

[DeepDayze]

This...and it's about time we reduced our dependency on Flash and rely more on open standards for presenting video content.

or at least get behind Gnash and Lightspark for playing back legacy Flash content