New x64 flash for Linux and Windows

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Works real good in both the OS.

 

Thanks, finally, youtube is now playing on my debian system!

 

The latest x64 in Linux uses less CPU than its predecessors and runs far better than x32 used with nsplugin, also webcam now works with this version.

 

thanks for post guys

 

How much is the CPU improvement?

Anyone know now how much is the CPU gap between windows flash and linux flash?

 

With the new one the gap is around 15% here.

 

It's available from this ppa.

Does anybody know if the recent security leak is fixed in that preview?

 

This being the latest beta, I am assuming that it woulnd't be vulnerable.

 

I'm trying it right now, and it works - but in fullscreen mode I only get unbearable flickering obviously due to an apparmor problem:

It works in fullscreen if the profile is in complain mode. But why does flash want to write to /dev/nvidiactl ?

 

Checking out the lowered CPU usage, I have a strong suspicion that graphics acceleration is finally working on Linux and flash, one of teh reasons its trying to access your nvdiactl.

 

Yeah, could be. Do you also have problems in fullscreen with the apparmor profile in enforce mode?

 

OK, since there were other problems I had to add the following lines to the FF profile:

Code:

#shockwave flash64
  /dev/nvidiactl rw,
  /dev/nvidia0 rw,
  /proc/interrupts r,

Now fullscreen works. However, there are other apparmor messages concerning various files in /tmp, like this one:

 

Wouldn't know, I do have app armor enabled but I am on Kubuntu and I use Opera here which doesn't have a apparmor profile.

 

The complete addtitions in the apparmor FF profile seem to be:

Code:

#shockwave flash64
  /dev/nvidiactl rw,
  /dev/nvidia0 rw,
  /proc/interrupts r,
  /tmp/**[^/] m,

This keeps apparmor quiet.

 

This also confirms that hardware acceleration is now on with Linux and flash, a great news indeed.

 

Indeed! Firefox now only uses 6-7% cpu (with 70 tabs open)
Maybe due to better flash rendering of ads?

 

I am positive its hardware acceleration, only then its possible to reduce CPU usage.

 

Yeah, I mean flash now consumes less CPU due to hardware acc.

 

So far this new 64 bit libflashplayer works great on my wife's Facebook games (unlike the older versions). This is great news. Now I can finally convert our quad-core AMD Desktop over to 64 bit. I've been wanting for the longest time to be able to utilize its full potential but the sucky older 64 bit flash player prevented it. Again, great news.

Thanks, Linuxforall, for the heads-up.

Later...

 

You would also like the fact that webcam and mic finally works on x64 flash as well, there is also a ppa for Ubuntu in case anyone is interested.

 

I'm afraid it is - according to http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ it's only fixed in the new Preview 2 as of Sept. 27. Not yet updated in the ppa.

 

tlu,

ppa has been updated yesterday, the sevenmachines one.

 

Yep, I saw it.