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Still waiting for Flash
Still waiting for Flash
Posted Mar 11, 2008 17:04 UTC (Tue) by jmorris42 (subscriber, #2203)Parent article: Still waiting for Flash
So from what you report it sounds like the free flash player would play YouTube videos about as well as Adobe's plugin does on my machines. I.e. silently. Ok, I do get sound now... after a lot of google action and manually building libflashsupport to make it support OSS, etc even though I do have ALSA running (xmms is playing via ALSA as I type this) on one of the two machines. So if you count sound playing over a second out of sync with the video I have sound with the Adobe plugin. And both computers' Firefox became extra unstable after installing Flash. One would almost get the impression the whole idea was to make sure we have a bad experience unless we run IE on Windows. And you just know that by the time we finally have a working free flash player the hip websites will be on to some new closed tech. Feh.
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Still waiting for Flash
Posted Mar 11, 2008 17:55 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
>So from what you report it sounds like the free flash player would play YouTube videos about as well as Adobe's plugin does on my machines. I.e. silently. Probably a permission issue. But anyway, you do not need crappy browser plugins to play YouTube (thank god!), but youtube-dl and mplayer do a better job at it, including (surprise) double-speed playing, eating much less CPU, thanks to Xvideo, SSE-optimized decoding, and the "cleanliness"¹ of free software projects' code. ¹Well, not every project. But given AdobeFlash and mplayer, I take a stance that the latter would win. Closed corporate code can be really ugly actually.
Still waiting for Flash
Posted Mar 13, 2008 9:56 UTC (Thu) by dankamongmen (subscriber, #35141) [Link]
http://home.gna.org/clive/ clive annihilates youtube-dl in all tests I've put it through. You might want to check it out. Beyond that, I've had rather better luck with the VLC Multimedia plugin than the mplayer plugin, despite using mplayer for my primary video viewing. YMMV.
libcrashsupport
Posted Mar 12, 2008 2:29 UTC (Wed) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998) [Link]
I too get frequent crashes with flash videos, and it only seems to happen with libflashsupport. That probably has to do with the fact that the API provides no means for the audio output layer to report errors to the flash runtime, so knickers get tied and everything goes kaboom, taking the browser down with it.