Hello Leszek,
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Leszek Lesner <leszek.les...@web.de> wrote: > > > THIS IS NOT GOOD :( > > > > We need to solve this issue ASAP before we carry on with our Start Ubuntu > > campaign. > > How are we suppose to do this ? NO idea :D The Adobe Flashplayer is proprietary software. > (and is simply talking crappy software) > It seems only with Linux, it has these issues :( > Alternatives like gnash or lightspark exists already. They support > graphic shardware way better than the Adobe Flashplayer however they don't > support video flashsites too good (they were never really meant for this) > browser-plugin-lightspark browser-plugin-gnash I tried to check these and it has tons of dependencies :( even more than what VLC has. > Say, have anyone tried to play that on Windows XP? I have no XP installed > > on any of my machines. Is there someone with the same machine or close to > > it can play the same video on XP and see what happens? > > > > It would be really bad if XP will work better :( > > It will work better as Windows XP is supported way better by Adobe. > That what I expected and was afraid of. This is bad/sad news :( > Also notice that the Adobe Flash Player does not support non SSE2 capable > CPUs > under Linux which the Adobe Flashplayer for Windows does. So basically a > old > computer with a non SSE2 capable CPU will run way better with Windows XP > when > it comes to Flash content. > Again, bad/sad news :( http://phillw.net/hardware/BnA9pw11 It does not show whether I have SSE2 or not. I need to check again on that machine, I'm on my Laptop right now. > Sadly we can't really do anything about it. > As the flashplayer was abondend for mobile plattforms and linux I also > really > don't see any future for it currently. > :( What we could do is advice users to use either VLC (for youtube videos that > aren't available as html5 video) or other alternatives (minitube, ...) . > That > will cover a lot of online video use cases but sadly not all. Which is not good enough and sad enough. Sigh! -- "All of us are smarter than any one of us." *Best Regards,* *amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/>* *Start Ubuntu<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommunicationsTeam/WOWLubuntu/StartUbuntu> * *My Own Business <http://alilinx.blogspot.com/>*
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