Flash Player Support

[TrashyMG]

Chromium/Chrome has some form of built-in flash player.

ninja'd by Ptitseb... I miss the ninja smiley face from the old forum.

 

[levi]

The pepperflash package in debian only has builds for x64 (amd64). Some work may be needed to pull this out of raspian and bring it over/port it, but if that can be done, doesn't running chromium fix this issue for anyone that wants to play flash games?

 

[Silent-Hunter]

The pepperflash package in debian only has builds for x64 (amd64). Some work may be needed to pull this out of raspian and bring it over/port it, but if that can be done, doesn't running chromium fix this issue for anyone that wants to play flash games?

It's literally just an .so file if I recall, so it should be super easy to use it!

 

[Kippykip]

It's literally just an .so file if I recall, so it should be super easy to use it!

The Pi3 uses armhf right? So I think it would work. I'm just baffled how they got adobe to compile a armhf pepperflash in the first place.

 

[edgex004]

Pepperflash is Google, not Adobe. Google releases armhf versions of pepperflash for their Cromebooks.

From what levi said, Debian does not have a armhf package for pepperflash. Debian gets pepperflash by downloading Chrome, unpacking it, and copying out the plugin for use by other browsers (Chromium).

I'm not sure, but I thought the reason why Raspi3 has flash is because (in a similar fashion to the Debian package) someone grabbed the armhf version from Chrome OS:

https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer

 

[kaprikawn]

Same, video sites aren't a problem (anymore) but spotify is. I think they once had a flash-free implementation but went away from it because they wanted flash's DRM for decoding the songs.

All of the TV catchup sites in the UK I use (BBC iPlayer, 4OD and the ITV one) frustratingly still use Flash. Luckily I use Chrome on every desktop computer I use so I don't have to install that abomination. But it shows there are still some holdouts.

 

[ingoreis]

Hmm...is Slackware for the Pandora not in armhf?
Maybe someone can try Pepperflash on Slackware?

@Linux-SWAT had don so many for Slackware and its a realy good Full Fledged Operating OS for running from SD Card on Pandora.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

SL4P 14.2 and previous are soft-float, -current and future releases will be hard-float.

I think pepper flash is x86-only.

 

[ptitSeb]

peperflash is not x86-only. There an armhf version of it.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Ah ok.
I suppose that it's a binary ?
Is there any official link ?

 

[ptitSeb]

Not official.

Here for example : http://hwswbits.blogspot.fr/2013/04/flash-on-picuntu-linux-arm.html (but this is old stuff, I'm pretty sure there are newer version floating around, I'll ask meveric on the Odroid forum...).

 

[Linux-SWAT]

I looked around, but found only binaries.
Ok, if the source code is available and can be compiled, I can include pepper in the armhf branch.

 

[slaeshjag]

You're not going to find the source code for pepperflash.

 

[ingoreis]

I found here a little rescent Site:
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/11/new-pepper-flash-installer-for-chromium-firefox/

and here a good Howto:
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/10/pepper-flash-chromium-opera-ubuntu/

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Why no source ?

 

[slaeshjag]

pepperflash is adobe's propriatary flash plugin. Except it uses the pepper API rather than the old NPAPI.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Ok, so I can't include this for license and security issues.

 

[ingoreis]

Ok, so I can't include this for license and security issues.

Yes but you can test it maybe

 

[Linux-SWAT]

You too hehe !
Anyway, I'm working on 14.2 for now ;^) .

 

[Kippykip]

Ok, so I can't include this for license and security issues.

I really don't think adobe will care about having pepperflash on a nearly 10 year old obscure linux handheld.