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Flash video issues in Linux 64-bit

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Is anyone having issues with Adobe's flashplayer in 64-bit linux? I'm noticing issues where flash video has substantial performance issues when it's fullscreened. The video stutters at times and some tearing occurs. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 64bit with nvidia drivers.
 
Flash is crap, even on Windoze, and worse on Linux.

What hardware are you using, CPU/Video? My 1.7Ghz laptop with an Intel 950 runs 100% CPU playing flash even inside the broswer, not full screen on Fedora 12 i368.
 
Well I'm running a C2D E4400 @ 3.0ghz and a 8800GTS 640MB, in Windows flash runs without issue but that's not the case for linux.
 
Flash is a 3rd-class citizen on anything but Windows. It runs like crap on Mac OS too. I've never come up with a very good solution for fullscreen video. My poor old Pentium-M laptop has no trouble at all with simple SD video in fullscreen on Windows, but in Linux degrades to a 2fps slideshow. If you find one, let me know.

The latest 10.1 beta is supposed to improve video performance. I haven't tried it yet, and had issues with the 10.1 beta on Windows, but it's worth a shot: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html.
 
The 10.1 beta isn't supported on linux 64bit :(

It's sad that flash has been around so long as is still so clunky for linux. This won't bode well at all for their upcoming Android version. I don't understand how they expect it to run on smartphones.
 
CoW]8(0);1035504688 said:
The 10.1 beta isn't supported on linux 64bit :(
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Most distros provide a way to run the 32bit flash on a 64bit OS, I am sure Ubuntu can also.
 
This is the fix that I used. It works beautifully. The only downside is that you can't watch video from Hulu.com but you have use Hulu desktop. Everything works just as well as it does in Windows.

-Open Ubuntu Software Center

-Type "flash" into search field. With the exception of Ubuntu Restricted Extras, remove all installed flash plugins; they are all garbage.

-Do this:

Code: 
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove

Then get the 64bit flash file.
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/...flashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Right click it and extract here. You will be left with libflashplayer.so file. Put the libflashplayer.so file in your home folder.

Then:
Code: 
sudo cp /home/your_user_name/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

Make sure to put your username where I wrote your_user_name.

Or you can use this code to copy it using the "gui" file manager with sudo privileges
Code: 
sudo nautilus


Restart firefox if open and type in about:plugins to check if flashed is the version you installed.


Hulu Desktop can be found here. It works pretty well.

http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop
 
Whenever someone mentions flash and linux, I ALWAYS think of this comic:

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*just so everyone knows, i use linux too. I'm not bashing linux :D*
 
illuminate said:
*just so everyone knows, i use linux too. I'm not bashing linux :D*
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It really is too bad and shows how closed source hurts. If Adobe opened Flash this problem would have been fixed by the community years ago.

However unlikely, I have high hopes HTML5 means the end to Flash.
 
longblock454 said:
It really is too bad and shows how closed source hurts. If Adobe opened Flash this problem would have been fixed by the community years ago.

However unlikely, I have high hopes HTML5 means the end to Flash.
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I too have high hopes for HTML 5. Adobe blows.
 
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