Flash 9 ??

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Flash 9 ??
started by: baron22

Posted by baron22 on Nov. 09 2006,01:56

Has anyone managed to get Flash 9 beta running in dsl yet?
And if so,any pointers ?

Posted by Zucca on Nov. 09 2006,06:45

Has Adobe finally released Flash 9 for Linux?

Posted by baron22 on Nov. 13 2006,17:06

OK,I should rephrase my question

Has anyone managed to get Flash Player 9 beta running in dsl yet?
And if so,any pointers ?

Posted by lstark on Nov. 16 2006,04:43

just "installed" the beta about 10min. ago.

get the beta plugin from: http://www.adobe.com/go/fp9_update_b1_installer_linuxplugin

extract the tar file.

copy the file .so file (i.e. libflashplayer.so) to your plugins directory for the browser. For some reason I setup Firefox to run out of my home directory so I would copy libflashplayer.so to /home/dsl/firefox/plugins/

finally, chmod the .so file to be read/executable by all. I wasn't sure if it was going to work, so I just gave it 777.

I then just closed all open browser windows that I had and started over. It began using the new plugin right away.

If you can think of a site that needs Flash 9 to work, I could take a screen shot. The one I tested with was Line Rider at Deviant Art.
I'm addicted to this little toy whenever I have a little bit of downtime at work, etc.: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/
With the Flash 7 plugin installed, you should see a white square embedded in the page where the .swf file should be playing. Once you setup the Flash 9 beta plugin you will be able to mess around with Line Rider.

Hope that helps.

Posted by lstark on Nov. 16 2006,04:56

Thought of a better tangible result of installing the Flash 9 plugin.... the music player on your (or anyone else's) myspace page will now function correctly. You get the Track Name, the Spectrum Analyzer and the +Add and -Remove buttons on the bottom right. All of this in addition to the Play/Pause button and the plain border/background stuff that showed up when using Flash 7.

Posted by baron22 on Nov. 17 2006,12:38

Thanks...I'll give it a go.

Posted by Zucca on Dec. 02 2006,11:02

I hate when some sites require new flash plugins. Anyway. How it is working? No freezings?