How can I get Flash Player on old Pentium III laptop to work?
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How can I get Flash Player on old Pentium III laptop to work?
Apologies if this in the wrong forum (my first posting here) and not a Linux expert.
I have recently installed Xubuntu 12.10 on an old HP Omnibook 6000 , Pentium III, 1.2 ghz, I think. Seemed a shame to throw it away!
All working as well as can be expected considering the age and spec apart from playing Flash videos. Lubuntu behaved similarly.
I have installed the Xubuntu Restricted Extras but to no avail.
Any idea how I can get this work?
Apologies again if I have mis-posted.
Doug
Does it even start playing some content or it crashes as soon as you load the page you're viewing?
I believe there's some SSE2 code compiled in the flashplayer plugin so, on a Pentium III with only MMX and SSE you won't ever be able to use it apart from some older version (you could try with version 10).
There's a great post by DavidMcCann explaining everything you need to know to make it work on old computers.
Does it even start playing some content or it crashes as soon as you load the page you're viewing?
I believe there's some SSE2 code compiled in the flashplayer plugin so, on a Pentium III with only MMX and SSE you won't ever be able to use it apart from some older version (you could try with version 10).
There's a great post by DavidMcCann explaining everything you need to know to make it work on old computers.
Many thanks for your very prompt reply. Perhaps it's a case of 'You can't make a silk pusre out of a sow's ear'!
It's fine for most other things so maybe I'll leave it be.
I will check out that link though.
Thanks again, Doug
With only 1.2GHz even older versions of the Flash Player will deliver only stop-motion-like videos. If you just want to watch Youtube videos I can recommend the Minitube player, I was able to watch Youtube videos with it on a 550MHz Celeron CPU, so it should work fine with your machine.
then try downloading the video to your hard drive and watching it with your favorite player (I prefer mplayer for older hardware). Tools such as minitube and youtube-dl may assist you with this task (if they are legal in your jurisdiction).
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