New Flash player for Linux adds great features, slows playback
Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 12/10/2007 - 16:12.
It's good news, bad news situation when it comes to Adobe's new Flash player for Linux.
On the plus side, Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3, version identifier 9.0.115.0 was made available for Linux at the same time as Mac and Windows versions. It's nice to see Linux not being treated as the little brother who only gets the older, hand-me down programs by a major software vendor. An even bigger win for Flash Player users, regardless of their operating system, is that its supports H.264.
H.264 is one of the two major HD (high definition) codices used on Internet multimedia broadcasts.
The other significant HD standard is Microsoft's implementation of VC-1 in Windows Media Player. Microsoft will also be making VC-1 available in Silverlight, its cross-browser, cross-platform multimedia plug-in. Novell is working with Microsoft to bring Silverlight's functionality to Linux in a Mono-based project called Moonlight.
Still, H.264 seems to be pulling ahead in overall popularity. H.264 is used in Apple's QuickTime Movie file format and in HDTV in the MP4 format. It supports such less common formats as M4V, M4A, Mp4v, 3gp, and 3g2. In other words, there is going to be no shortage of HD movies, shorts and so-on for your newly augmented Adobe Flash Player.
It will, however, take a while for much of that content to appear in a format that you can get at.
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Here's a link to an "H.264
Here's a link to an "H.264 Flash Sample". It works great for me in Firefox with Mandriva 2008.0 32 bit and all updates.
Real HD video!
http://www.sidepodcast.com/video/h264-flash-sample/
Kapital Moto TV
Here's a video site that has all content available in the new Flash player:
http://www.kapitalmototv.co.uk/flash/
All the content playing here is in QuickTime containers (MOV) and encoded with H.264.
I've tested this site in Firefox on Linux, IE & Firefox on Windows and Firefox & Safari on Mac. It works fine as long as the new Flash player has been installed.