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Support the Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) for the NPAPI  
Written by Lyfang the 11 May 12 at 19:14. Not an idea
Ubuntu should find a way to implement the Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) for the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI).

The Chrome Flash Player Pepper plugin currently only works for the Google Chrome browser.

See also: Adobe discontinuing standalone Flash for Linux https://trisquel.info/en/forum/adobe-discontinuing-standalone-flash-linux
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Solution #1: Add support for the PPAPI
Written by Lyfang the 11 May 12 at 19:14.
Ubuntu should add support for the pepper plugins so that users can continue to use their browser of choice. Other browsers can implement the PPAPI & use the Flash Player Pepper plugin.
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Solution #2: CrossOver Office Windows browser plugins
Written by Lyfang the 11 May 12 at 20:19.
Run Adobe Flash Player or Adobe Shockwave Player for Windows directly from your Linux browser. However CrossOver Office is proprietary software.
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Solution #3: Make a ppapi package for Chromium and other ppapi browsers.
Written by 7penselen the 24 Aug 12 at 20:14.
The most simple and probably worst and realistic solution. Make a PPAPI-flash package for Chromium. So you have at least an opensource browser in stead of the closed Chrome. The flash driver can be extracted from the Chrome package.

See the 6 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 15 Dec 12 at 19:49) >>

Possible Ideas for Flash in ubuntu  
Written by vanquishedangel the 31 Oct 12 at 03:17. Not an idea
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.
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Solution #1: Transcode the flash from the browser to another format
Written by vanquishedangel the 31 Oct 12 at 03:17.
There may be several ways to do this, a simple plugin to a websiti to transcode it to any media you choose when flash is called in the browser, and then will stream it back to mplayer, vlc, or totem plugins within the browser.

the use of Transmagedon may also be done here with a browser plugin that can be set to transcode to any media file type then displayed in the browser through any plugin

See flash downloads the video to /tmp folder, so allowing this to happen is a must in my idea, but then a plugin for say, mplayer would automatically play the file, gnash, lightspark etc could start the process of getting the flash file to where it is supposed to be in the /tmp file but them use the gecko-mediaplayer plugin to play the file in the browser on all websites

See the 6 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 3 Nov 12 at 16:18) >>

Arabic Support for Adobe flash  
Written by DH. HASSAN the 5 Nov 09 at 08:34. Not an idea
The Arabic letters is unreadable in Adobe flash ..
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Solution #1: Arabic Support for Adobe flash
Written by DH. HASSAN the 5 Nov 09 at 08:34.
Ubuntu Support for linking letters & RTL languages in Adobe flash ..

See the 1 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 22 Mar 11 at 06:04) >>

Make niceness of npviewer.bin much higher/worse on x64 systems  
Written by Sealbhach the 6 Dec 10 at 22:43. Not an idea
I use Lucid 64-bit and I often find when using Flash applications that my Firefox window freezes for a few seconds and goes dark.
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Solution #1: Make niceness of npviewer.bin much higher/worse on x64 systems
Written by Sealbhach the 6 Dec 10 at 22:43.
I think the culprit using up all the CPU is npviewer.bin. When I give it a bad niceness value the problem goes away.

I know Flash does not come preinstalled but there may be some way to include a wrapper script so that when npviewer.bin is started, it will have a reduced priority.

I think this only affects 64-bit systems.


See the 3 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 9 Dec 10 at 02:55) >>

Ubuntu x64 version has problems with 32 bit flash  
Written by enedene the 9 Dec 09 at 17:31. Not an idea
Let's face it, flash is not working very well in 64 bit Ubuntu.
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Solution #1: Use 64 bit version of non-free flash
Written by enedene the 9 Dec 09 at 17:31.
There is a simple solution to that problem. 64 bit version from Adobe site is working perfectly. It's still in development, but anyone who has tried it lately will know that it's much more stable, faster, reliable and less processor hungry than is 32bit version on 64bit machine. The security patches are timely so no need to worry about that.

Since I've installed this flash version (month ago) I haven't had single a crash of flash on pages.

Please try it before giving the vote. If you think that 32 bit flash works well on 64bit machine, it's not, make a test, surf for 10 minutes on flash rich sites or play a flash game or something like that, it just isn't working well.

For you who want to test my claim, go here:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html

Download the 64 bit version. Killall browsers that are running, if it's firefox:
sudo killall firefox

Unpack it, and then copy it to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins by doing:
sudo cp libflashplayer-*.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
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Solution #2: Simply wait until Flash for x64 is ready
Written by Attiliron the 9 Dec 09 at 21:14.
Simply wait until Flash for x64 is ready. I'm sure the Ubuntu team will include it in the same way they do it in the x86 distribution.

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 11 Dec 09 at 20:30) >>

flashplugin-nonfree on 64-bit still installs 32-bit flash  
Written by unimatrix the 4 Oct 09 at 12:23. Not an idea
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.
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Solution #1: Use the 64-bit version
Written by unimatrix the 4 Oct 09 at 12:23.
Link to official 64-bit Adobe Flash:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

See the 1 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 4 Oct 09 at 13:25) >>

because i hate flash more than anything else on this planet  
Written by mysoogal the 15 Sep 09 at 16:01. Not an idea
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.

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Solution #1: Buntu 6 bit-torrent share
Written by mysoogal the 15 Sep 09 at 16:01.
My Idea Would have the following technologies working together forming a clean and easy to use video delivery system that's based entirely on ubuntu, and free software

PHP
MySQL
Python
theora
ffmpeg
Videolan web plugin, mozillia web plugin
ajax
mootools
jquery
rtorrent

I would call this Buntu 6 bit-torrent share because it is my sixth rant to developers about my idea.



if your still confused, take this as a good example, image you-tube right now, without flash but instead it uses vlc media player plug-in to stream video,vlc plugin its supported both on Linux and Windows, now imagine you-tube isn't serving flash h264 mp4, but it serves theora video ! patent free, now imagine you tube also supports remote uploading and remote or local upload with bit-torrrent support. this is my dream ! the free dream a world without flash is my dream.

thanks for reading, If only my coding skills were much more better I would love to free this whole world from adobe flash and send you all to a better world without flash.


See the 2 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 23 Sep 09 at 15:17) >>

Gnash 0.8.5 to be included by default in ubuntu  
Written by lolren the 5 Mar 09 at 02:22. Not an idea
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.
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Solution #1: Install Gnash 0.8.5 by default
Written by lolren the 5 Mar 09 at 02:22.
Like the title sayd, the solution is very simple.And, after all, open source software fixes bugs faster than proprietary ones.If gnash is included, the remaining bugs are faster solved, because gnash is "under spotlights".


This is not a joke.Just give it a try pls.The open source concept for ubuntu should be just "open source", we dont need proprietary software to poison this " perfect world". The Gnash comunity, the Nouveau comunity, and alot more is trying their best to free the Linux world from this slavery.


And... if i didn`t try Gnash 0.8.5 ... myself have given a -1 to this ideea.

See the 1 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 25 Jul 09 at 15:14) >>

Flash plugin for Firefox should be included in Applications>Add/Remove  
Written by alexandros.java the 27 Mar 09 at 14:01. Not an idea
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?
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Solution #1: Include the flash plugin in Add/Remove
Written by alexandros.java the 27 Mar 09 at 14:01.
This way the users will be able to find the plugin and install it, like every other application.

See the 1 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 30 Mar 09 at 15:04) >>