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Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

On 9/18/2012 7:53 PM, Go Linux wrote:

--- On Sat, 9/15/12, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:


From: lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>
Subject: Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 11:08 PM


Adobe says on their website: "Flash Player 11.2 is the last
supported
Flash Player version for Linux. Adobe will continue to
provide security
updates."[1]
They've threatened similar before, and then turned around and put out a new version after all. Last time it was the 64-bit version, and boy, what a pain it was to have to keep troubleshooting and tweaking the 32-bit version on AMD64 Debian. 




What's that supposed to mean?  Will we soon have to go
without flash
when that version becomes incompatible, unless we use
chromium?


[1]: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/




I ran into a problem with flash just this afternoon. You Tube was working fine when I suspended the computer to go to the post office.  Came back less than a hour later and nothing would play - only a blank screen.  As observed in this thread, no problem with Chromium.  So I downloaded the latest Flash version from Adobe and now it's working again.  You Tube must have made adjustments to their site during the time that I stepped out.  Google has too much power to screw things up.  :(
Some computers don't resume all the hardware properly. If yours has buggy video drivers, they might disable any hardware acceleration going on. Resetting/restarting the driver sometimes helps.
Also, Yotube has been finicky lately for me as well, and I don't think Flash is the problem. I think it's more that the scripts running on the page aren't doing something that they should, because I get problems no matter whether it's Flash or HTML5 + Javascript. Fiddling around by semi-random clicking on stuff and reloading the page six or eight times sometimes works. In other words, patience is what's required.
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