True, flash even crashed my mac..twice! I had to restart even
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LOL, seriously, I never knew it would be done ever. Anyways, that is good!
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Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 Brings Flash Video Streaming to iOS Devices
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True, flash even crashed my mac..twice! I had to restart even
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LOL, seriously, I never knew it would be done ever. Anyways, that is good!
Why did you even bother to install it ?
Flash is an optional download from the Market. To disable it, you'd have to first download it...
Your Apple crashed because of a flaw in Apple OSX kernel code.
Flash just happened to be running at the time.
To me, this represents the reverse of what content providers should be doing.
H.264/HTML5 video should be sent to every browser that can support it, with Flash being the fallback. Not the other way around.
H.264/HTML5 video should be sent to every browser that can support it, with Flash being the fallback. Not the other way around.
Nice Adobe, and now make a patch for CS5 Flash Pro for Lion, otherwise this was a waste of time.
It makes me laugh so much when I see people rubbish flash as they say it's only for advertising and will be glad when it's dead.
Well at least you now either can't see it, or can switch it off.
So, what do you think is going to possibly happen in a little if/when Flash is not around? No more advertising?
Nope, sorry, you going to get swamped in HTML5 adverts instead
Well at least you now either can't see it, or can switch it off.
So, what do you think is going to possibly happen in a little if/when Flash is not around? No more advertising?
Nope, sorry, you going to get swamped in HTML5 adverts instead
Can't wait to hear Walt's report for Flash on iOS.
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Why not send WebM/HTML5 video to every browser that can support it, with Flash being the fallback ?
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5)
So the point of flash again is?
So the point of flash again is?
This is a server side technology primarily used for live streaming. On the client Flash will be used on the Desktop but HTML5 on iOS Devices. Between the Server and iOS devices Apples HTTP Live Streaming Spec (http://developer.apple.com/resources/http-streaming/) will be used.
This is primarily meant for live content, something which can't simply be done by dropping a WebM or MP4 file in some folder.
Whats up with all the idiotic apple fanboy comments? Apple doesn't provide flash support which limits some people's access to some contents. Adobe comes up with a solution to provide flash content on iOS devices, and they cry like Adobe did something wrong to them. Flash is just another technology that serves a purpose for many people so having this option is a GOOD thing.
something must be wrong with your Chrome install. I've recently switched to Chrome from Firefox because Chrome felt faster and more stable. On the desktop, I didn't really notice the difference, but I really noticed on my slow laptop, so made the switch, and have never been happier.
I also wanted to add that Google worked with Adobe to fully integrate flash into Chrome, so flash shouldn't really be crashing when using Chrome.
Apple doesn't provide flash support which limits some people's access to some contents. Adobe comes up with a solution to provide flash content on iOS devices, and they cry like Adobe did something wrong to them. Flash is just another technology that serves a purpose for many people so having this option is a GOOD thing. something must be wrong with your Chrome install. I've recently switched to Chrome from Firefox because Chrome felt faster and more stable. On the desktop, I didn't really notice the difference, but I really noticed on my slow laptop, so made the switch, and have never been happier.
I also wanted to add that Google worked with Adobe to fully integrate flash into Chrome, so flash shouldn't really be crashing when using Chrome.
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There was an issue with Radeon cards that screwed pretty much all of us on the Mac side...
Yeah but Canvas is freakin awesome.. even on this Beige G3 (G4) it's super fluid and fast.. compared to flash where I can barely play a 360p video smoothly... and that's with an Altivec-optimized version of Firefox 5 =/
Still trying to figure out how to configure Firefox 7 to view flash on this PPC lol.
B.S. Adobe simply had to come up with something to be able to service the iOS market. They were not stepping up so much as doing anything they could not to miss out. Flash players would cripple the battery life of iPads due to the lousy programming. Stepping up to the plate would have been fixing Flash players.
Hum... I think you're quite exagerating. Compare Apples vs Apples. Canvas isn't quite faster than Flash at this point for comparable content, something you don't seem to be comparing in your "Canvas" vs "360p video". (video decoding vs just displaying graphics ? Come on, hardly a fair comparison).
Here's something that's somewhat up to date showing Flash is still on top as early as the beginning of 2011 :
http://pacoup.com/2011/02/03/flash-vs-html5-performance/
You are correct in the above, but it is not only for live streaming, but also h.264 media serving. But as mentioned, Wowza and Red5 servers have been doing this for a while now....the Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder has been able to stream live h.264 for a couple of years. The problem is that the audio is in MP3 format and can cause stuttering of the audio depending on the platform being viewed on, as well as the audio hardware at the source. Main Concept sells an AAC plugin for FMLA that gives you AAC audio. Streaming this stream to a Wowza server would allow it to then serve it in the different formats/containers needed for a variety of clients. Now, apparently Adobe's on server allows that as well, atleast for Flash Player and iOS.
Don't blame flash because its too robust for a puny machine like the ipad. Its Adobe's job to create software that can be used by as many machines as posible to gain market shares. Its not their job to tailor their products to Apple so that Apple can still look good while putting out underpowered products.
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I bought my Girlfriend a $99 HP Touchpad and tested running Flash videos and animations on it. It worked really well and the battery didn't take a hit at all. I was very surprised.
Flash on my octo Mac Pro desktop and my dual core Macbook Pro runs awful, almost using 100% of the computing power, and heating up my laptop.
I think there is more to the Apple/Adobe Flash issue then either Apple or Adobe is telling us.
Bottom line I like to see Flash run on my iPad 2, and the HP Touchpad proves it can be done and done well.
BTW: Youtube on a HP Touchpad runs way better then on my iPhone 4 or iPad 2. It doesn't stop during playback, doesnt just stop buffering out of nowhere and not load anymore. It just plays the video all the way through. All my iOs devides struggle to play back a complete youtube video, usually dies halfway through a video and won't play anymore. This is using a fast Fios Connection with a 802.11 N Apple Airport router. It just sucks. Use the same connection and router with the touchpad and it works fine.
Flash on my octo Mac Pro desktop and my dual core Macbook Pro runs awful, almost using 100% of the computing power, and heating up my laptop.
I think there is more to the Apple/Adobe Flash issue then either Apple or Adobe is telling us.
Bottom line I like to see Flash run on my iPad 2, and the HP Touchpad proves it can be done and done well.
BTW: Youtube on a HP Touchpad runs way better then on my iPhone 4 or iPad 2. It doesn't stop during playback, doesnt just stop buffering out of nowhere and not load anymore. It just plays the video all the way through. All my iOs devides struggle to play back a complete youtube video, usually dies halfway through a video and won't play anymore. This is using a fast Fios Connection with a 802.11 N Apple Airport router. It just sucks. Use the same connection and router with the touchpad and it works fine.
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agames.com or whatever the kids were playing that day. Hulu once. Nothing repetitive, ever. And I'm talking about Flash crashing, not Firefox.
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Let me translate that for you:
"It's Adobe's job to make to program the least efficient code possible so that only well-spec'ed computers made in the last 1-2 years can run it, and even then with an unreasonable drain on system resources for the work it is doing. It's not Adobe's job to keep in mind while creating said programming that by far the largest trend in computing today is toward tablet devices that cannot by the nature of their ultraportable designs possibly have the battery or cooling capacity to support the kind of processors required to run its software."
In that case, the server can implement a cache of recently-transcoded content. It can be limited to consume no more than, say, a maximum of XYZ GB of storage space. Whenever a request arrives for a piece of media that would normally need to be transcoded, the first thing the server would do is check to see if it's already in the cache; if so, it can serve up the cached results. If not, it can live-transcode the content, and store it in the cache, flushing out any stale cache content in the process.
And would require no extra effort on the web developers' part as they plan out their web pages' content.