LXer: Adobe Flash Player 11 For 64-Bit Linux Is Christened

LXer · 07-13-2011, 09:01 PM

Published at LXer:

As we have been expecting since May, the next Adobe Flash Player release finally re-syncs the 64-bit build with the Flash updates in the mainline code available to 32-bit users. This is the first public beta release of the Adobe Flash Player 11 that offers both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries to Linux users, along with 64-bit binaries for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X users...

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TobiSGD · 07-14-2011, 05:20 AM

Come on, guys. Are you paid by NVidia for still not implementing va-api acceleration? I desperately need that for my laptop which really suffers from heat when watching flash videos.

H_TeXMeX_H · 07-14-2011, 02:16 PM

Download them and watch them offline.

MrCode · 07-14-2011, 04:21 PM

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Download them and watch them offline.

I do this anyway for anything bigger than 480p, and my lappy has a VDPAU-supported NVIDIA GPU.

I use Compiz as my WM, though, so VDPAU in Flash doesn't work for me anyway.

H_TeXMeX_H · 07-15-2011, 05:03 AM

The only reason to have the flash plugin is: flash games and flash-only sites, both of which are optional.