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Thank you very very much! Would you con­sider build­ing .ppc64.deb not in ppa?

Addi­tional ques­tion: does your code use altivec?

No. The slow­ness of the video path comes from not hav­ing the PPC equiv­a­lent of a needed SSE2 accel­er­ated func­tion. I plan to solve this by writ­ing the code using (portable) LLVM vec­to­r­ial IR

That is not pos­si­ble with the launch­pad PPA infra­struc­ture. I could upload them some­where but no inte­gra­tion with apt

Many of us appre­ci­ate the com­pe­ti­tion to Flash, keep on the fight. I’d love to have alter­na­tives in the future.

PS: If you are going to use screen­shots from Trans­form­ers, how about Megan Fox liv­ing the hood of the Camaro?

We’re plan­ning an upload in Debian, so ppc sup­port will be avail­able at least in exper­i­men­tal and Natty, once synced.

Very nice, thanks for your help!

Given the var­i­ous pri­vacy issues asso­ci­ated with flash’s local stor­age and evercookie-like tech­niques, what mech­a­nisms do you plan to pro­vide to help peo­ple han­dle flash’s local stor­age bet­ter than with the exist­ing Adobe plugin?

why not just nip over to ffmpeg-devel and use their ready made PPC altivec SIMD code where required, no rea­son to re-invent the wheel every time is there.

i also note on a very quick pass of your cod­ing tricks page, that your rather new to SIMD assem­bly mmx/sse etc.

so id strongly advise you and any­one inter­ested in under­stand­ing and writ­ing faster code to take a look at that cur­rent x264 log asap
http://akuvian.org/src/x264/freenode-x264dev.log.bz2

for the last few weeks Dark_Shikari and the other assem­bly x264 dev’s have been men­tor­ing the GSOC Code-in student’s in all things video assem­bly, tak­ing them know noth­ing but how to read C, to pro­duc­tion of work­ing and Fast x264 10bit assem­bly rou­tine in 2 hours les­son and show­ing how they use sim­ple yasm macros to pro­vide pow­er­ful and smart expand­able cross plat­form code etc.

seri­ously take a look and judge for your­self if you really intend learn­ing GOOD video assem­bly, as Dark_Shikari if you can code/read C you can write assem­bly, or words to that effect

I’ve no def­i­nite answer right now. A pos­si­ble approach would be whitelist­ing the sites allowed to cre­ate LSOs, but smarter ideas are welcome.

Did you con­sider liboil or liborc ?

really nice, i hope to see Lightspark for Pow­erPC on my pre­ferred (ital­ian) dis­tro too: CRUX PPC.
Thanks you !

pow­erpc pack­ages for Ubuntu Natty are already avail­able: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightspark/0.4.5.1 – 1/+build/2104388

I asked to allow build on pow­erpc in Debian too (https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=lightspark&arch=powerpc), it will take a cou­ple of days before they enter the archives. Stay tuned

Look­ing for­ward to using this with debian Pow­erPC and more! Keep up the good work!

You made my day! Thanks, as a long stand­ing PPC Ubuntu GNU/Linux user, it has been ages I was wait­ing for this!

Thanks for your efforts for the pow­erpc sup­port. If there is any­thing we pow­erpc user’s can do to assist let us know.

is there a switch between adobe flash­player and yours ?
a chrome/ff exten­sion can do that ?

I’m no expert in exten­sions capa­bil­i­ties. Both browser makes it pos­si­ble for the user to enable/disable the var­i­ous plu­g­ins installed. This func­tion­al­ity is cur­rent bro­ken in fire­fox though when deal­ing with mul­ti­ple plu­g­ins for the same MIME type. The bug is fixed in fire­fox 4 beta.

thats great that your sup­port­ing PPC! I am a happy mac owner now