Flash on PowerPC Linux?

George Wright asks: "One of the missing links to make PPC Linux more complete is the lack of a MacroMedia Flash plugin. Several people have been caught out by this, but someone has (finally) decided to petition for it. For those people that don't know what Flash is, check it out here. How about some support?"

Please No!

[poena.dare]

I've only ever seen two kinds of Flash: funny and annoying. I would gladly, oh yes, gladly do without one so that I am spared the other!

Re:Please No!

[trouser]

Yeah, and I get a lot of spam so e-mail is stupid.

Sure

[Shishio]

Sure, that would be great to have. Macromedia has been giving PPC Linux the cold shoulder lately, and I'm happy to be on the petition.

By the way, wouldn't this be better suited to a News section rather than Ask Slashdot?

for those people that don't know what flash is?

[Naikrovek]

subject says it all. don't they bark all the time about a 99% infiltration rate into the browsers nowadays?

aah forget it.

Oh Please...

[the_other_one]

Please don't port Flash to Linux/PPC

Move it to PPC from another platform.

I hope it is moved from Win xx as this will have the greatest short term benefit for mankind.

Next move it from Linux/i386 to Atari 2600.

What's wrong with the GPL version:

[Anonymous Coward]

Here: http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/ [swift-tools.com]

Re:What's wrong with the GPL version:

[Analog Penguin]

It works, kind of, but not very well, not on Flash 5 files (or maybe it was 6), and sound doesn't work well. Other than that, it's just fine.

swfdec

[dschleef]

Use swfdec [sourceforge.net].

Yes...

[cjpez]

... we all know how well ONLINE PETITIONS work. If I were the CEO of a company, I know that's the first place I'd look.

Great

[Some Guy]

Now I can get the fancy advertising...

Speedier PPC version?

[Drakino]

Hopefully this will result in a speedier version for all PPC OSs, like OS X. Complex Flash right now will make about any Mac cry under the load, even a G4 with a nice vector unit going unused.

Why not make x86 stable first?

[slacy]

I actually like flash, but unfortunately, I don't use it under Linux, because its sooooo darned instable. And since I'm Windows-free, it also means I'm flash-free.

Why don't we petition Macromedia to fix the stability of the x86 version before having them embark on something like PPC?

How about a Flash player that works on ANY Linux

[wowbagger]

Before we start griping about a Flash player for PPC Linux, how about we gripe about a Flash player that works decently under ANY Linux?

Specifically, I have noticed that Flash under Linux runs like Unreal on a 286, even on my Dual-P3 1GHz with a AIW7500. CPU load during playback is not close to 100% of one CPU, but I get a slideshow poorly synced with the sound. Of course, on Windows running on one processor of the same machine I get a very smooth playback well synced to the sound (as well as a dirty, slim

Re:How about a Flash player that works on ANY Linu

[GiMP]

Make sure you're talking about the Macromedia player. The macromedia player for me, under x86, is great. Fast, never crashes.

swfdec, which i use on my PowerPC machine is very slow and crashes often. It cannot play many files. However, it is good enough for use on my PowerPC machine for my own use; however, I would certainly not call it stable enough for my mother, my grandmother, or even my wife.

Re:How about a Flash player that works on ANY Linu

[wowbagger]

I mean the Macromedia players versions 4,5, and 6, downloaded directly from Macromedia.com.

I have yet to see one of them that ran more than 6 frames/second.

Try going to the "Thomas Timberwolf" pages over at WB, and playing those.