Re: Flash Player 9 (beta) available!

"n" == notbob <notbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
n> I installed on Slackware
n> 10.1 as a plugin for Mozzy 1.7.5. Sorry Charlie! I hit U2B and it
n> didn't work worth a damn. Vids come up, but major time jerks
n> (1-3secs) and no audio at all make FP9 on my box useless.

Resist installing yet another (idiosyncratic and proprietary) video
player on your system.

If you want to watch some videos w/o Adobe's flashplayer, just
convert them to something your favorite video player can live with.

Maybe by doing something like:

ffmpeg -i some_video.flv -target ntsc-svcd - |
mplayer -

or

wget -O - http://some.site/some_video.flv |
ffmpeg -i - -target pal-vcd - |
mplayer -


Your usual player may also have features (full screen mode, rate
conversions, filters, skipping to some point other than the beginning,
dumping to a file, streaming) that flashplayer may not.

It even works on hardware rated far below their minimum requirements,
or across the LAN.

Last but not least: you are sure that your open source player will
never attempt to secretly collect usage information and send it back
to its developers so that they can improve their product (a marketing
department's euphemism for what some people call spyware), as some
previous flashplayer versions did.

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