Improve Flash Player support for Linux.
Written by Copitox the 9 May 09 at 17:18.
Implemented
Most of people are just "desktop users". They just want to listen to music, use an IM client, use twitter, facebook and youtube. So what? Well, youtube use flash, facebook use flash, and LOTS of sites use flash. It's clearly not the same wathcing a youtube video or playing a flash game in linux and in windows, the windows performance is WAY better. In Linux it barely runs, use a lot of CPU and sometimes even make the system crash. So, in order to make ubuntu really usabe for everyone, this should be solved.
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Selected solution (#2):
Lobby Macromedia/Adboe to release the code
Written by
Copitox the 9 May 09 at 17:18.
Canonical could use their connection with Dell to push Macromedia/Adobe.
Canonical could use their connection with Dell to push Macromedia/Adobe.
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Selected solution (#3):
Work with Macromedia/Adobe
Written by
Copitox the 10 May 09 at 03:28.
Maybe Canonical could make a team to work with adobe on Flash linux versions.
Maybe Canonical could make a team to work with adobe on Flash linux versions.
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Selected solution (#4):
Improve Gnash
Written by
bitf the 10 May 09 at 03:38.
Gnash is Free Software, which means it can be bundled with Ubuntu. One step closer to getting Ubuntu to work out of the box.
Gnash is Free Software, which means it can be bundled with Ubuntu. One step closer to getting Ubuntu to work out of the box.
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Selected solution (#5):
Adobe Just Started, so just offer Help
Written by
Shady3D the 10 May 09 at 06:15.
just wait, because Adobe is just starting to develop for Linux, and they've spend a lot of time with windows to get this right, so its a matter of time.
so what should canonical do is just to offer Adobe for some help if they need, but working on Flash again will be waste of time and effort.
just wait, because Adobe is just starting to develop for Linux, and they've spend a lot of time with windows to get this right, so its a matter of time.
so what should canonical do is just to offer Adobe for some help if they need, but working on Flash again will be waste of time and effort.
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Selected solution (#8):
Improve SWFDec
Written by
anyedge the 15 May 09 at 07:16.
I list SWFDec(which actually works better for me) because Gnash has already been listed(and I voted for that as well). Adobe will only release their Flash code once the FOSS alternatives catch up to their software(think Sun and Java). Creating a team to work with Adobe WHILE they are keeping it closed source is a waste of time and resources that would be better served(and more coercive to Adobe) working on the FOSS alternatives.
I list SWFDec(which actually works better for me) because Gnash has already been listed(and I voted for that as well). Adobe will only release their Flash code once the FOSS alternatives catch up to their software(think Sun and Java). Creating a team to work with Adobe WHILE they are keeping it closed source is a waste of time and resources that would be better served(and more coercive to Adobe) working on the FOSS alternatives.
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Selected solution (#9):
Assist with HTML 5 (includes native video support, scalable graphics, etc)
HTML 5 includes native video support, scalable graphics, and other neato things. Basically the aim is to provide all the beautiful stuff we use on the web today without having to resort to some binary, unaccessible plugin.
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When was the last time you saw a search engine tunnel through links in a Flash website?
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HTML 5 is something that Canonical is able to assist with and support. Its a W3C, international standards kinda thing. It is where the web is headed.. or at least should head.Remember folks, the web got big due to accessible protocols..
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We cannot let the future be run on closed platforms like Flash or Silverlight.
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Think Javascript + scalable graphics + native video support all without plugins! Improve the open stuff, not beg the proprietary vendors for more. It's not the GNU/free way.
HTML 5 includes native video support, scalable graphics, and other neato things. Basically the aim is to provide all the beautiful stuff we use on the web today without having to resort to some binary, unaccessible plugin.
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When was the last time you saw a search engine tunnel through links in a Flash website?
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HTML 5 is something that Canonical is able to assist with and support. Its a W3C, international standards kinda thing. It is where the web is headed.. or at least should head.Remember folks, the web got big due to accessible protocols..
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We cannot let the future be run on closed platforms like Flash or Silverlight.
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Think Javascript + scalable graphics + native video support all without plugins! Improve the open stuff, not beg the proprietary vendors for more. It's not the GNU/free way.
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Selected solution (#10):
Work on ogv development
Mozilla and Wikimedia are working on the ogg video format to replace flash videos. This could be a viable alternative with a little bit of time and a lot of support from the community.
If someone can find the link on this, please post in the comments.
Mozilla and Wikimedia are working on the ogg video format to replace flash videos. This could be a viable alternative with a little bit of time and a lot of support from the community.
If someone can find the link on this, please post in the comments.
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Selected solution (#11):
Do nothing
whats wrong with flash? the version from adobe works fine
whats wrong with flash? the version from adobe works fine
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Selected solution (#12):
Based on #4 Add GPU acceleration to Gnash
GPU acceleration will make flash media less of a resource hog.
GPU acceleration will make flash media less of a resource hog.