On 9/18/2012 7:53 PM, Go Linux wrote:
--- On Sat, 9/15/12, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
From: lee <l...@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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