Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta with GPU Acceleration!

[MUff1N]

We know you don't actually care about 99 percent of the contents of the latest Flash Player update.
What you really want to know is whether those new 1080p YouTube streams will run smoothly on your machine thanks to the newly implemented graphics card video acceleration...

More...

I've personally installed & tested this out & it works and makes a HUGE diff when watching Youtube or Hulu vids on high resolution playback!
Very, very smooth now & worth the trouble of installing it! If you use an Nvidia card you'll need the latest driver v195.62 for it to be utilized.
I use Hulu all the time to watch some of my favorite TV series and I must say I'm very impressed with the playback now on Hulu at high resolution.

Adobe Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 beta download site
(10.1.51.45)

[booman]

Does this mean more enhanced 3D graphics in Flash Games?

[Daniel ~]

If anyone has success with this in Linux please let me know...Then let me know how! ":O}

[ThunderRd]

Not yet for Linux, Dan.

[Daniel ~]

Thanks TR

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

If anyone has success with this in Linux please let me know...Then let me know how! ":O}

Did you click the link & look?
It has a Linux plugin to use this...

Flash Player 10.1 Prerelease

The following downloads will install Flash Player 10.1 prerelease for Windows, Intel-based Macintosh and Linux desktop operating systems. See the Release Notes for more information.

Important: All users should uninstall any currently installed Flash Player before installing the latest prerelease.

* Download plug-in for Windows (EXE, 2.2 MB)
* Download active-x for Windows (EXE, 2.2 MB)
* Download plug-in for Intel-based Macintosh (DMG, 9.4 MB)
* Download plug-in for Linux (TAR.GZ, 4.4 MB)

[Daniel ~]

I need someone who will jump on it first...then drag me into it once everything is sorted! ":O}

[Gizmo]

Doesn't appear to work on 64-bit, even with nspluginwrapper

[Kaitain]

Definitely 32bit only:

kaitain@jumpgate ~/downloads/install_flash_player_10_linux $ file libflashplayer.so
libflashplayer.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped

Which is I suppose why the install script aborts if it's not an i386 to i686 architecture:

# check architecture
TEMPARCH=`uname -m`
case $TEMPARCH in
i[3456]86)
ARCH=i386
;;
*)
exit_cpu $TEMPARCH
;;
esac


Doing a quick ldd on the libflashplayer.so 10.1 binary reveals that it's happily picking up all the 32bit compat libraries on this system, except for libstdc++.so.6, for which it's pulling in the 64bit version. Strange...

[Daniel ~]

Are you guys sure your not just being lazy? LOL

[Gizmo]

That's interesting. On my system, it's not pulling in any 64-bit libraries.....

[Kaitain]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

That's interesting. On my system, it's not pulling in any 64-bit libraries.....

Ah, on closer inspection, it is using the 32 bit libstdc++.so.6. That library's just stored in an unusual path.

I was working late again last night *sigh*

        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf777e000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.2/32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf6b58000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf6a6c000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf6a5d000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXt.so.6 (0xf6a0d000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6 (0xf698c000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xf6961000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf6948000)
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xf65e7000)
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xf6565000)
        libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xf654a000)
        libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xf6522000)
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xf650a000)
        libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xf6500000)
        libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2 (0xf64a5000)
        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xf6469000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xf642d000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xf6429000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xf635b000)
        libssl3.so => /opt/flash-libcompat/libssl3.so (0xf6331000)
        libsmime3.so => /opt/flash-libcompat/libsmime3.so (0xf630d000)
        libnss3.so => /opt/flash-libcompat/libnss3.so (0xf629a000)
        libplds4.so => /opt/flash-libcompat/libplds4.so (0xf6296000)
        libplc4.so => /opt/flash-libcompat/libplc4.so (0xf6290000)
        libnspr4.so => /opt/flash-libcompat/libnspr4.so (0xf625d000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf6259000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf6233000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf6215000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf60cf000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf777f000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf60cb000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf60c5000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libSM.so.6 (0xf60bc000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libICE.so.6 (0xf60a3000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf6090000)
        libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libexpat.so.1 (0xf606f000)
        libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xf606b000)
        libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXdamage.so.1 (0xf6067000)
        libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib32/libXfixes.so.3 (0xf6060000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXrender.so.1 (0xf6057000)
        libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXinerama.so.1 (0xf6053000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXi.so.6 (0xf604a000)
        libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libXrandr.so.2 (0xf6043000)
        libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXcursor.so.1 (0xf6038000)
        libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpng12.so.0 (0xf6014000)
        libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpixman-1.so.0 (0xf5fea000)
        libsoftokn3.so => /opt/flash-libcompat/libsoftokn3.so (0xf5f9c000)

Still, it seems 64 bit firefox still won't talk to anything other than native flash:
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32]

I hate it when elves misbehave. Strange how it didn't work inside nspluginwrapper.

[Daniel ~]

Very well my minions... now you may rest! ":O}

[booman]

I was hoping they could use flash in a Direct X sort of way to allow 3D games to run better off the internet....

[PorPorMe]

Thanks MUff!n!

Reminded me I haven't updated my driver in months!