Macromedia Flash+Fedora core 4+Mac mini

[David Woodhouse]

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 14:45 -0500, Robert Story wrote:
> So the question becomes: Which would be more productive: hacking together ppc
> rpms for qemu, or a petition to get Adobe to release a ppc version. I'd guess
> the first.  Has anyone actually done it yet? Does it work?

There's a qemu packages in Extras, which I thought had a patch to make
it build with gcc4. Maybe it needs a little more work though. 

I've had acroread working that way inside a firefox window, but that's
not going to work for the flash plugin -- running in qemu requires a
separate process. You'd have to combine it with something like
http://www.gibix.net/projects/nspluginwrapper/

> What about the new flash stuff announced by the GNU folks last week? Does it
> run on ppc?

Yes, but it's buggy as hell. I think swfdec currently does a better job,
although it's still not particularly good. The original gplflash works
OK on older flash files, but nothing later than flash 4 iirc.

Certainly, getting one of the free players to work correctly is the best
option in the long term. And they're _almost_ usable now.

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dwmw2