Guest infamouse Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 I have managed to install Flash 10.2 on my OSF, didn't think this was possible. The app shows in my applications and lets me browse files etc but wont work on iplayer, anyone any ideas?
Guest peter0118 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 Adobe flash player dont support amv6 CPU
Guest KACE_231 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) This is typical adobe flash, they cant even be bothered to make a stable flash for x64bit computers (browsers), why would they ever do it for our processors Edited April 16, 2011 by KACE_231
Guest Mushroom_Lord Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 Our cpu's are powerful enough to use flash. Anyone can install the app, but it won't be effective.
Guest fonix232 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 Our cpu's are powerful enough to use flash. Anyone can install the app, but it won't be effective. Powerful or not, it isn't because that. It is because Flash uses a lot of the new instructions found in ARMv7 but not in ARMv6.
Guest Tobriand Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 I understand that Adobe are unlikely ever to do so, but unless they have decided too write flash 10 directly inArm ASM, I don't understand why they couldn't in principle just recompile it with different optimisations. Shouldn't it be just one simple compiled flag character being changed to a 6? Ah well. Next phone :)
Guest infamouse Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 Never been able to get it to install before, always failed on install, worked first time this time, thought maybe something had changed.
Guest fonix232 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 I understand that Adobe are unlikely ever to do so, but unless they have decided too write flash 10 directly inArm ASM, I don't understand why they couldn't in principle just recompile it with different optimisations. Shouldn't it be just one simple compiled flag character being changed to a 6? Ah well. Next phone :) As I said, it isn't about a flag or two, but about some ARMv7 specific functions and instruction sets. What, of course, won't work with ARMv6!
Guest infamouse Posted April 17, 2011 Report Posted April 17, 2011 (edited) Managed to get videos playing in TV Shows Stream using an external player. Could never get them to work before. Tried playing with default player which loads but black screen. Not sure if the flash makes any difference though. Edited April 17, 2011 by infamouse
Guest MrHicks Posted April 17, 2011 Report Posted April 17, 2011 (edited) I bet it's the SIMD instruction set that adobe are specifically using in ARMv7, which means the operations that rely on SIMD would be horribly slow in ARMv6 due to no parallel execution. ARMv6 is hugely inferior to ARMv7 in this respect. Edited April 17, 2011 by MrHicks
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