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Linux YouTube App ‘Minitube’ Updates, Adds Social Features
A new version of flash-free desktop YouTube app ‘Minitube’ has been released. The bulk of the changes concern Mac OS X Lion users (as the app is cross-platform) but there are few goodies that Ubuntu users can benefit from too. These include: – Support for finding “other parts” of videos delivered in segments Social sharing [...]
Adobe Flash 11 Made Available in Ubuntu
Adobe Flash 64 bit is now directly installable in Ubuntu using the Canonical Partner repo, thus replacing the need for additional 3rd party PPAs to be added.
Faster Adobe Flash 11 Beta 2 Released
A second beta release of Adobe Flash 11 has escaped into the wild.
Adobe Flash Player 10.3 beta released
Adobe Flash Player 10.3 beta saw release yesterday/today/tomorrow (depending on your timezone) – but what’s new?
Quite a bit. Read on for more.
Flash Player 10.2 released with Stage Video hardware acceleration
Abode has released Flash Player 10.2, bringing with it the Stage Video API which promises smooth 1080p playback whilst using up to 85% less CPU than before..
Watch embedded Flash videos using Totem
Play embedded flash videos in Firefox with Totem using the ‘Flash Video Replacer’ add-on.
Adobe Flash 10.2 Beta released
Adobe have announced the beta release of Flash player 10.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Flash Player 10.2 beta introduces many new features and improvements including Stage Video, a new API which Adobe says will ‘help web sites deliver smooth, beautiful video across devices and browsers by enabling access to hardware acceleration of the entire video pipeline.’
Use Chrome’s auto-updated Flash in Firefox
Thanks to a partnership between Google and Adobe Google’s Chrome browser ships with a built-in version of Flash that is more recent than that available to download individually.
Here’s how to use it in Firefox.
Bypass Flash GPU validation in Linux & improve performance
Boost flash performance by bypassing GPU validation.
Install 64bit Flash from a PPA or .deb
With Adobe re-starting their 64bit Flash testing, Linux users are once again able to benefit from native flash on their 64bit desktops. Installing it isn’t a great chore, as we outlined previously, but if you’re a PPA-kinda dude or dudette then a PPA maintained by SevenMachines is available for ease of use. Installing 64bit Flash [...]
64bit Flash for Linux returns
Adobe has previously made a testing version of their 64bit plugin available for users however this was discontinued, somewhat abruptly, earlier this year.
Well, it’s back!
Gnash 0.8.8 Released, claims 100% of all YouTube videos now work
The latest version of open-source flash player ‘Gnash’ boasts that ‘100% of all YouTube videos’ should now work using it. Gnash can be run as a standalone application or as a plugin for most popular web browsers including Chrome & Firefox. Other improvements cited on the release page include: – Gnash can switch at runtime [...]
LightSpark Vs Flash: Benchmarked
The team behind open-source Flash alternative LightSpark pushed out a new bug-fix release a few days ago. Seeing as we’re a few releases in, I felt now was a prime time to see just how well LightSpark performs against its proprietary counterpart – particularly so I have a benchmark which to compare future releases against. [...]
Open Source Flash implementation LightSpark gets second RC, new features
Free and fully Open Source Flash implementation ‘LightSpark’ sees the release of a second release candidate today. Lightspark 0.4.2 sees the following additions and improvements, as listed on the official announcement: – YouTube support for H264 videos. Currently only those are sup ported as they are played using the Action Script 3 based player. This [...]