New Flash Player on Ubuntu Feisty

[justin420]

I am currently using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn; and noticed that I cannot view the full screen of any podcast, and was wondering if anybody else has ran into this problem or if its just me. I am using the package "flashplugin-nonfree" and using Firefox as my broswer. I have 2 other Windows XP machines, and they perform as expected, meaning you click on the little full screen icon and it actually does go full screen. Any help in fixing this issue would be much appreciated. Thanks, and looking forward to hearing those of ye who use Ubuntu Feisty and their own personal experiences reguarding the full screen with the new flash player.

[ste116]

Maybe the version of flash but i'm sure the guy over a the ubuntu forums www.ubuntuforums.org can clear this up really quickly. The have always been alot of help to me.

[heathenx]

the full screen feature on linux does not currently exist yet. it has been added to the new beta version of the flash player though. we'll have it soon.

[hillwog]

I never have been able to get Flash audio working right In Ubuntu.

[justin420]

the full screen feature on linux does not currently exist yet. it has been added to the new beta version of the flash player though. we'll have it soon.
Yeah, sorry about that. Now I really feel like a dumb newb, even though I've been using Linux specifically Ubuntu/Debian *mainly Ubuntu* for about 2 years now. After a little bit of googling and RTFM'ing; I figured that out too. It is NOT supported in linux YET. Too sad really, as I think more and more people start to use linux each day and run into these kind of stupid little issues that happen, just because its linux and not Windows. Hopefully they (adobe) will fix this issue soon for linux users, because I think that this is an important feature and should be implemented on ANY OS. Thanks anyways!

[heathenx]

@justin420

i totally agree with you. it would have been nice if version 9 of the flash plug-in for linux would have been supported from day one. it works so well in windows. there is a beta version of the new flash plug-in which you are free to try but the last time that i tried it it didn't work with youtube quite yet.

i'm looking forward to the new flash plug-in with the mpeg-4 support. being a screencaster this will save some encoding time for me...i hope.

[masherscf]

The Linux X86 video server has always been sort of klugey. Getting the proper screen modes used to be the most difficult thing to get set-up correctly. I haven't set-up Linux in years so I wonder if it is still the case. I bet there's no way for the flash client to change the screen mode for the best full-screen presentation anyway.

[scienceking]

The Linux X86 video server has always been sort of klugey. Getting the proper screen modes used to be the most difficult thing to get set-up correctly. I haven't set-up Linux in years so I wonder if it is still the case. I bet there's no way for the flash client to change the screen mode for the best full-screen presentation anyway.

Screen mode? X11 does not have and never had(including XFree86) anything called screen modes. Are you talking about rendering methods? These are just the APIs/drivers that the software uses to display the video and have nothing to do with the xserver itself. Even Windows and OSX have many ways to render video, and they can break things under certain conditions(usually when uses do not configure them correctly, check out the preferences in media player classic or under VLC advanced some time in all these operating systems). Adobe's plugin CAN use whatever rendering engine it wants. Frankly, I have never had problems setting up video to run correctly in any linux distribution, even roll your owns. The key is to know what all the terms mean in those preference windows. :p

That said, there were issues with distributions shipping multimedia apps in the past with unconfigured or misconfigured settings. Of course, this would have been easy to fix , but this has also mostly become a thing of the past.

[heathenx]

this just in...

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

[justin420]

thanks allot for that heathenx! I tried it and it works! SWEET!

[heathenx]

yup. the new flash plug-in (9.0.64.0) , full screen mode, works great so far in opensuse 10.2.

[theshan]

worked fine on fedora 7 as well...fyi.

thanks.
shan