New Flash Player Software Beta

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It’s good to see that the rising count of Ubuntu(and it’s variations) have forced Adobe to support it….

I’m looking forward to the promised better video experience….

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I did and its cool but there are some thing that i don’t like but i don’t use Adobe for lots of things i just use it to open picture files so i’m fine with it.

I will be more than happy to use a good Flash player…. as long as it isn’t Microsoft’s CRAPPY Silverlight knock off thing. What is up with Microsoft’s copying? They need some kinda copying anonymous thing for them or something. lol

The best thing about the new Flash Player…..Ubuntu OS support. Thank you Adobe!

I’m definitely going to try it out. Thanks for the tip Chris!

My main issue with any Adobe Product, is the time it takes to get the program loading, no matter what computer and what capacity or even ram or anything else I have, it still takes a good 10-15 minutes for the program to start…. Other than that, I haven’t received any other problems with their type of program. (I don’t have the flash one though…)

Can anyone please tell me if MS Silverlight is any good? I was forced to download it when I was downloading Visual Studio C# Express 2008. I don’t think that I have actually used it though…..has anyone?

Anything in beta sucks
but this will be intresting when it comes out of beta

@KY_Wildcat
Clearly you have not used Silverlight to develop with, sorry to see you are so close minded to give other technology a chance.

And “Copying” is pretty standard practice, just look at the fact that there is a companies called Ford, Honda, Toyota, Pontiac, etc etc. Maybe we should all still be driving Model T’s around.

Or how about us all buying all our computer hardware and software from one source instead of having thousands of options.

The list goes on and on and on, open your eyes and use your brain.

Damn all that “copying”, what a horrible thing.

You didn’t mention Inverse Kinematics? For animation that’s an awesome tool to have and a great new feature!

I think ill take a look at this chris!

There’s getting to be a fair amount of commercial use for Flash, from webgames to student testing.

Of course Microsoft wants in, and they’re willing to spend money to catch up on the next big thing they missed the bus on. They’ll use the open specs, add a few features unique to their version, rename it, and add a Flash competitor to their development tools. Then they can just bundle the player support with MSIE and people will forget Flash.

The approach has worked for them so far.

yea i do notice it does run slow at loading on startup of the programs

I just hope they made Linux support Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2) instead of the old and moldy V4L (version 1). Then I could dump Windows XP for when I am recording our D&D gaming sessions on uStream. (Check it out at http://lordsoftyr.com where you can find a feed). uStream is awesome, but having to be stuck with XP to use it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I’ve found Flashcam, which looks like it might work though. I still need to test it and find out.

the only issue I have ever had with adobe is it is constantly bugging me for updates. is there a way to make it automatic.

I upgraded to the beta for a very specific reason. I needed to test out a website feature. I have on my constant work in progress a picture slideshow made possible by PicLens. Unfortunately, I was reduced to a simpler version of it a short while back and was presented with a dialog box to upgrade Adobe Flash to at least version 9.0.28, which I don’t think exists, or later.
Once the beta was released, I upgraded immediately and can now stop going crazy about that.
Question, how can one simple end user test for all these new features in this new beta?

Sounds good, I think that we are going to be seeing better web/flash developments because of it.

I’m actually having some problems with my flash player right now… I don’t know if I should jump the gun yet though :|

Ya i agree. I don’t think it’s a good idea to get a product that is still in the early beta stages. Best to wait until they got most of the bugs cleaned out.
I hate it when you download something in the beta stages, and you can “really tell” that it’s in the beta stages.
A great post once again Chris
Thanks
Bradley Bradwell

I have yet to try the beta as I’m not to big on the beta software… I usually like to wait until the release candidate comes out. The only beta I’ve tried recently is that of Firefox 3. However, I think I will give the new Flash player a go once it’s out of beta.

ill give it a try when it comes out of beta but i think that this will be promising

I have not tried this yet, but then I have not tried video streaming either. I have an emachines lap top that is several years old, and its video card, at least I think the video card is the problem, keeps over heating the machine and forcing a shut down, something tells me that live streaming would not be a good idea….

Yeah, im not going to download even in late beta. I always wait until it officially releases because i cant stand dealing with tons of glitches and bugs. I do so much stuff with flash that if there was a hicup i would be in a world of hurt. Maybe this version may not actually be so intensive on you cpu. If it isnt, i may be a able to go back to streaming for a little bit. :)

there is just one thing i miss from the god old adobe flash player, thats also just to be able to download the flash videos for example from a right click menu.
I’m perfectly content with the god old adobe player and Orbit as video downloader!

The normal adobe flash player is just perfect for the home use of the flashplayer. The only thing it doesn’t have is the ability to download the videos but you can use for example the Orbit downloader for it.

I’m happy with the god old Adobe Flash Player why should I change to a noname one? the only thing I’m unhappy with it is that it haven’t got a build in option for downloading the flash videos.

this have nothing to do with the subject but im still learning much technology and chris is on of the great way to learn much about this

Ubuntu user here and it is great to see some more support coming our way. Ubuntu is growing and I admire Adobe for being one of the first to acknowledge that and support us Linux users.

I stay away from betas until the company announces the official launch of the product. Betas usually just make me frustrated at the product and ruin my impression of it.

This is why I have a Test PC, solely for the experimenting. I have had firefox 3 on the PC since the earliest pre-alphas. I’ve also run various distros on the HD to see what it was. I’ve had some bugs with 10, still not ready for mainstream users

I am very anxious about switching to the new flash player, but at the same time excited. I have been trying to see examples of the new functionality, I think i may have seen an example of the 3D effects on cnet.com . I am about to do the research on Speex Audio Codec. Whats that about? Also Does anyone know how to use components in flash to create a custum audio/video player. Similar to youtube/ blip.tv/ imeem.com. I wouold like to build a custom audio player for starters.

this looks really cool, it would be amazing if OSs start coming out in flash form just as like a test run, like a 100mb download for ubuntu or some sort. It would be pretty cool on future flash player releases. I can’t wait til this is fully released. i usually only upgrade on these types of needed things until they are at stable release, but i look forward to it, thanks chris.

I really like the new flash 10. Flash has always been very processor intensive and it has been reduced in this version. Also I love the GPU support.

Wow that is a really nice feature set! Is there a confirmed date for release? Please notify us when it comes out! Hopefully this will change the way we compute for the better.

Thanks Chris

Now-a-days final programs are horrible and it is best to wait until the program as been updated. Companies except developers and programmers to test beta software and early adopters to test the final program. I won’t install Adobe Flash Player 10 until it has been out for a couple of months.

@leonacrafts
I know you being sarcastic but 10-15 minutes for an Adobe program to start? Sounds like you have computes issues. I install Adobe Reader about 5-6 times and week it only takes about 1 minute for Adobe Reader to open.

I generally will wait until after beta has been around for a while just so I don’t have to deal with all the problems associated with a beta.
Adobe, however generally has very stable software right out of the gate. Still, I’m always a late adopter of beta software.

All things flash really need a good context menu at this point. The Ubuntu support is particularly interesting, since I’ve been meaning to try the OS more seriously for some time, and this will sure be a small boost at it. Like someone said before me, an embedded downloader tool would really go a long way, though…

I’m not adopting the beta, but I’ll try the final version as soon as it comes out.

Looks like we are all in store for a huge improvement! The 3D effects sounds interesting. I am not sure what is meant by that, however. Does “Visual Performance Improvements” mean there will be support for higher quality videos? That would be very cool.

I am not going to install the Beta version until more testing has been done. I use flash media too much to risk not having it for a long time period.

I will still stick to the Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and you can read why 9.0.115.0 version on my blog. I’m hoping on 10 will be the like everything on internet is 3D you know what i’m saying.

It looks like it is a good improvement over the old one

This is gonna be a major upgrade for ubuntu , should be a breeze for windows. Will this be in windows update?

Im looking forward to see what the final product will be. I wont be upgrading to it until its either in late beta or officially fully released. Anytime theres an update to something that increases performance and features I look forward to seeing what the final product will be like. Its great that it will be using the GPU now instead of relying so much on the CPU

It looks the same to me. I’m still upgrading though, I don’t want to have to upgrade later! Now is the time.

I really hope that this will not only make it better for a person that streams and sends out live video and audio, but also make it work a lot better on the other end for the people viewing. I wonder what 3D will be like…

I’m looking forward for this one because i don’t really like that last version as it’s not that compatible or requires little but more process to work with it and my computer can’t take it as some times video freezes sound disappears or picture distortion.

I’m running Flash 10 on my Macbook Pro and I must say that I’ve noticed a considerably greater amount of Safari and Firefox crashes since upgrading.

They’re just now supporting Ubuntu? Wow, that’s long overdue. GPU support is also nice. Gotta upgrade to a 9800GX2 for Flash Player!

I didn’t have a chance to try the beta yet.I usually not try software which is in the beta stage.I prefer wainting Knowing that the best faze of the project will be the final one.

I havent really done a lot with flash, but I think I will start soon to add to some recording stuff that I am gonna start. It is also fantastic that there is Ubuntu support, they really need to start supporting that because it has really been moving along.

I’m very careful about the betas I’ll run after having a few too many hard system crashed. I’d stay away for at least a few weeks while the big problems get worked out.

Graphics is a come and go issue for me. By all means I have a powerful computer in the grand scheme of things, but I’m a graphics intensive person you could say. With Adobe adding the GPU support, the potential for Flash developers has gone through the roof! And that I’m really excited to see.
What I’m interested to know though is, When will Flash become the entire interface for the internet. Currently people are working around hybrids. Using bits of code hear and there to make an complete page. Well when will everything just be in Flash?

i downloaded it on my mac and trust me it is very very very buggy, i could hardly do anything with it so i switched back to flash 9

Wow, I hadn’t seen this yet, but the feature list looks cool. It is quite obvious that they kicked this off because they saw that Silverlight was going to be a big problem.

GO SILVERLIGHT!!!

that is really cool but i never notice any of the changes that are made with the flash player

I installed the Flash Player 10 beta a few days ago and quickly uninstalled… only to find myself trapped since Flash player 9 wasn’t installing right (I foxed it afterwards).

I wouldn’t recommend installing Flash beta… or anything from Adobe in beta. It still needs a lot of work: keyboard disables itself after a few seconds, you can’t click stuff, you lose sound. Ah, just… I hated that.

Flash Player 10 sounds very interesting. I’ll make sure to check it out after it is released. Thanks for the tip!

I can’t wait for the release of this new Flash software.

I want to join the Beta but, I’m not sure how?

Chris any help?