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Flash Player 9 Update 3 for linux released!

adobe.com — This version has support for the standard H.264 and AAC codecs and has hardware-accelerated fullscreen support. Also supports the new XEmbed browser protocol which should make it work in Opera.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 4, 2007

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  • twljagflba, on 12/04/2007, -3/+47Still no native x86_64 support though...
  • DeviateSeptum, on 12/04/2007, -4/+45Wow! It's almost like they care. Almost...
  • coollettuce, on 12/04/2007, -7/+41Fullscreen support?
    EDIT: I'm an idiot, just read the description and yes there is fullscreen support. Digg me down.
  • Carburetor, on 12/04/2007, -2/+26I hope it will fix the annoying randomally hanging problem with Youtube and Firefox .
    Seems like it's somehow related to flash (according to other posts i read).
  • voyvf, on 12/04/2007, -0/+18for those interested, release notes are here: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flas ...

    Now, if only they'd fix that darn transparency issue.
  • Megatog615, on 12/05/2007, -2/+17Adobe, please open your ***** code so we can fix your God-damn abomination of a browser plugin.
  • Xanium4332, on 12/04/2007, -0/+13up you go...
  • DeathAxe, on 12/04/2007, -1/+14And PPC?
  • Xsecrets, on 12/04/2007, -0/+12"Now, if only they'd fix that darn transparency issue."

    No crap you'd think they would have that at #1 it's amazing how many sites become basically unusable due to this bug, yet they don't even seem to acknowledge it in the known issues section. And It's obviously not a linux limitation or some other crap like that since the flash player 7 did not suffer from this problem
  • addictist, on 12/04/2007, -0/+11Still no Power architecture correct? Hence my PS3 Linux is still youtube-less?
  • Barleyman, on 12/05/2007, -0/+10does it fix the wmode=transparent problem that displays menus behind other elements?
  • theOster, on 12/04/2007, -0/+10Their idiots.

    nice
  • fantasticFlan, on 12/04/2007, -0/+9Sometimes it doesn't work.
  • Salviati, on 12/04/2007, -0/+9I have this problem too. It would be a nice surprise if this fixed the problem.
  • PatrickBrown, on 12/04/2007, -1/+10Yeah, but Linux is largely usable for 64bit compared to Windows.
  • MasteRR, on 12/05/2007, -1/+9Still crashes Firefox every 10 minutes?
    Native x86_64 yet?
  • TiMMY8765, on 12/04/2007, -0/+8no, you need to use nspluginwrapper
  • PsychTouch, on 12/04/2007, -0/+7i want the v4l2 support ;_;
  • z0mbie2099, on 12/04/2007, -3/+10Wow sweets.
  • MasteRR, on 12/05/2007, -0/+6Aye. Been running 64bit Ubuntu for a while now. Only things I use regularly that are not native is Flash and Java firefox plugins. I can get around Flash with nspluginwrapper, but java is a no-go (even with IcedTea). The rest of the system is all 64bit native, even UT2004!
  • Gendolookin, on 12/04/2007, -2/+8I dunno about anyone else, but the fullscreen is SLOW as hell.....I beleive it was faster before the "hardware support"..anyone else having that problem???
  • realityiswhere, on 12/05/2007, -2/+8Broken fullscreen support. If this was open source, someone would have a fix already.. sigh..
  • mooninite, on 12/04/2007, -0/+5Too bad that the "changelog" has remained the same for the past two versions. We've had h.264 support for a long time. What has really changed?

    If you don't believe me, just digg search for the past times this has made the front page.
  • omgoptimized, on 12/04/2007, -3/+8What about a FreeBSD version?
  • baalzebub, on 12/04/2007, -0/+5since Firefox & Seamonkey require the Linux compatibility package to run you may get the linux version to work just unpack it to ~/.mozilla/plugins and see if it works :)
  • JFrizzle, on 12/04/2007, -1/+5BSD support would be nice too...
  • prototypef, on 12/04/2007, -3/+7just like windows...
  • iwienand, on 12/04/2007, -0/+4It only works for me with the latest Opera beta, with the current stable Opera I get the same "gtk_init" errors.

    There is a useful Debian repository at http://deb.opera.com/ with opera-stable and opera-beta archives.
  • jron, on 12/05/2007, -2/+5Flash 9 locks up using Firefox on all 3 of my personal computers. I know it is a major issue with many other users as well... what he hell, Adobe...
  • Luminoth, on 12/04/2007, -0/+3Anyone that was using the beta versions that noticed Pandora wouldn't move on to the next song, this fixes that issue.
  • sunexplodes, on 12/05/2007, -1/+4Not everybody needs Photoshop. The GIMP is a perfectly workable alternative for pretty much anybody except graphics professionals.
  • MicroBerto, on 12/05/2007, -0/+3I have firefox (64-bit) on Ubuntu, with nspluginwrapper and flashplugin-nonfree

    Is there a safe way to update to this latest version of flash, or should I not bother? Will the ubuntu packagers be updating ever?
  • neko, on 12/04/2007, -1/+4maybe one of these days Adobe will fix their code and get their stuff to compile on 64 bits...
  • mcmlxxii, on 12/04/2007, -0/+3Nice....on 32bit at least.
  • sark666, on 12/04/2007, -1/+4Fullscreen? yes. Hardware accelerated? Rarely.

    I really want flash working properly fullscreen. I tried the last beta and it worked on a couple of sites, but not most. Just updated and it's pretty much the same thing. Anything on youtube fullscreen is choppy. Same with google video and the others. As a matter of fact, I don't think I've seen any flash that uses their older codec working properly with fullscreen acceleration in linux.

    It seems to be really flaky.

    Here's adobe's own example using h264. This sample for me is one of the only ones that always plays smooth fullscreen. However it is choppy windowed. Hardware acceleration can be used in windowed mode as well so I don't know why their own example doesn't.

    http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/fu ...

    This one is choppy as hell fullscreen but smooth as glass windowed

    http://kapitalmototv.com/flashtest/kmtvh264test.ht ...

    PS go easy on that one, only watch if your testing fullscreen in linux. I really dont think that site could withstand digg.

    This one (iron man trailer) is smooth as glass windowed or fullscreen. It's obvious on my system it's hardware accelerated for both.

    http://www.covergraph.com/alama/moviestar/

    Can any other linux users tell me if they get the same results? Also does anyone have an example where hardware accelerated fullscreen works with their older codec and not h264?

    And does anyone know what that ironman example is doing differently that no one else seems to be?
  • inactive, on 12/04/2007, -0/+2If this still has problems revert to 9.0.48.0 if you're not using that version currently. It seemed much more stable than other flash player versions I've tried.

    I just installed this one so I can't say anything right now.
  • parax, on 12/04/2007, -1/+3I'm with you there. I've got a decently fast computer (core 2 duo T770, 512 MB GeForce 8600M GT, 2gb ram), using the latest video drivers with direct rendering enabled and fullscreen is very slow, which I kind of assumed would happen because I had previously installed the release candidates of this Flash version and it was the same way unless something drastic was done to the final.

    In fullscreen mode there's a lot of tearing in the video.
  • JFrizzle, on 12/04/2007, -0/+2There was a PBI that had it integrated from the PC-BSD project.
  • ArthurSucks, on 12/05/2007, -1/+3At Jereso:
    And here I thought r3bol's comment was the dumbest till I read yours. If someone is anti proprietary software, why would you think he'd been a Apple or MSFT user?
  • MasteRR, on 12/05/2007, -0/+2Tried nspluginwrapper? It allows flash to run on PPC linux, so it might work on a PS3.
  • dpittman42, on 12/06/2007, -0/+2Sweet, now if only shockwave?
  • baalzebub, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1same here, this latest flash does not work with the current Opera release, hopefully Opera or Adobe resolves this soon...
  • inactive, on 12/05/2007, -1/+2On my machine, all of those are choppy. I can play fullscreen video all day - xvid, mpeg, wmv, mov, whatever - flawlessly, but Adobe Flash performance is really poor. My CPU pins at 100% playing any of them even at the smallest size, while regular videos rarely exceed 15% CPU at fullscreen. It's probably a function of what features are implemented by a specific GPU - and probably why some of the flash videos work for you but not others. If it weren't for content providers using this crap, we wouldn't need new machines every few years.
  • omgoptimized, on 12/04/2007, -1/+2I know but sound won't work then (it depends on alsa)
  • srouquette, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1same issue too, with 8800 GTX and drivers 169.28.
    Didn't have that with the previous player.
  • phinn, on 12/05/2007, -1/+2Ubuntu actually update their packages for once? Your dreaming.
  • xkero, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1Arrh damn! No go for nspluginwrapper users, it fails to load :( I'll have to hunt around for an older version and downgrade to get flash again...
  • Syphon0928, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1=(
    This is the only thing I want fixed...
  • MasteRR, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1Have you tried nspluginwrapper? I know most people talk about this for flash on x86_64 Linux, but I think it also allows Linux Flash to run on BSD x86 as well.
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