Written by vanquishedangel the 31 Oct 12 at 03:17.
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I hate flash so this is the reason for my submission along with the fact that I hate having to have multiple players when one could suffice
Also I have interest in Linux but not the technical skills as my gifts are elsewhere.
I dont understand why flash has yet to be replaced in any linux since popular players are capable of already playing flash like vlc, mplayer, and totem. So here are some possible ideas to solve the issue.
Why cant flash be transcoded to another format and then played in gecko-mediaplayer or vlc or totem plugins? I dont really care about the complex controls on sites like hulu, I just want the media to play period and simple controls provided by whatever player will suffice to me as I am sure this would be the case for many people.
I know this can be done because it is done for cell phones etc.
I realize that there is gnash and lightspark that are very promising but why the need to split developers amoung so many projects, gnash could be built to link and use totem rather than being its own player thus saving alot of programming and helping to further development in totem. html5 seems to be really cpu intensive
I realize this may be the wrong area to post this but since ubuntu has come up with many ideas to solve problems it seems to be the best place plus I really am unaware of any other places to post this, So if possible please submit this to the gnu project or whatever if it isnt in the appropriate place, but I belive this can also be handled by canonical as well.
Written by unimatrix the 4 Oct 09 at 12:23.
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The flashplugin-nonfree package still installs 32-bit Flash on 64-bit Ubuntu (Karmic included), and emulates it through nspluginwrapper, even though a 64-bit flash has been available for a long time.
nspluginwrapper creates additional CPU load for Flash which is already a huge resource hog.
Written by mysoogal the 15 Sep 09 at 16:01.
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my problem is with the open source community, I have been running ubuntu for 3 to 4 months now. my biggest problem out of all is flash, I want an end to the adobe flash domination of the Internet streaming world flash is everywhere , I want to free this corrupted community and let us use something different and free for streaming, such as Theora Audio / Video.
I want a alternative method to share my videos with friends and this whole freaking world. I do not want to spend millions paying fees to adobe or paying the mpeg4 licence, I want to have a video sharing website made up of the following technologies that are free and fair and developed by the open source community I do not want nothing that is based on patent software.
Written by lolren the 5 Mar 09 at 02:22.
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It is not a joke!!! not anymore, at least. Gnash 0.8.5 has been released. It works!!! According to Phoronix.com ( http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzExNQ ) Gnash has alot of improvements! And, it does!!! Youtube works, and other flash sites as well. I tested Gnash a year ago, and it sucked. I tested it again and, it Works!!! as good as Flash nonfree does. How many peoples used the first time linux (ubuntu) and they not succeed to install flash player and watch a video on youtube? ("flash player is not install, install manualy"......... no more!!! i say, install gnash by default, and offer flash player as a alternative.
Written by alexandros.java the 27 Mar 09 at 14:01.
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A user who wants to install the non-free flash plugin from Adobe has to either sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree from a terminal or start Synaptic and find the correct package. Most users prefer the Add/Remove window for installing/removing applications, so why not include it there?