Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

[Giles Orr]

On 19 September 2010 02:01, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
> To find out where to install, go to "about:plugins" in Firefox, and see
> where your current version of libflashplayer.so is installed.  In my
> case it's /opt/Adobe/flash-player/libflashplayer.so
>
>  To install...
>
> * for 64-bit version download the file http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
>
> * for 32-bit version download the file http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_32bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
>
> * exit Firefox
>
> * mv your current copy of libflashplayer.so to another directory as a
> backup, in case the new one doesn't work for you
>
> * extract libflashplayer.so from the downloaded tar.gz into the
> directory which you removed libflashplayer.so from.
>
> * fire up Firefox, and away you go
>
> * note that when the release version comes out, you'll need to manually
> remove the Preview Release libflashplayer.so
>
> Good news
> =========
>  It works for me, so far.  I've tried live365.com, both via my paid
> account and via the free (with commercials) option.  It works.  So does
> Youtube.
>
> Bad news
> ========
>  It's more painfull building up a collection of flv videos.  The old
> version used to copy Youtube videos/songs/whatever into /tmp with a
> filename beginning with "Flash".  It would get wiped each time you
> played a new video/whatever.  But you could always move it out to
> another place before playing the next video.  Rename the file to
> <something>.flv and mplayer plays it beautifully.  Nice way to build up
> a collection.
>
> The new version dumps it in the "Cache" directory of whatever Firefox
> profile I'm using.  You have to cd to the "Cache" subdirectory, and
> execute...
>
> file * | grep Macro
>
> and you'll get a list of all "Macromedia Flash" files in the directory.
> One of them is the most recent Flash file you played on Youtube.  You
> have to do some digging.  Again, copy it to another file elsewhere to
> keep a copy.

I haven't tried it with this new version of the Flash player, but the
Firefox "DownloadHelper" plug-in has been great for saving videos -
easier even than "the way it used to be."  :-)  And I am using it on
64-bit (and Windows, and 32-bit ...).

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