Posts Tagged ppc
Lightspark 0.4.5.1, with experimental PowerPC support
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Lightspark on December 16, 2010
Lightspark standalone executing YouTube on a ppc64 Debian machine
Only a few days have passed since the 0.4.5 and a new Lightspark release is already out! With big news for PowerPC users. The main new feature of this release is experimental support for the PPC platform!
Currently the performance of the video playback is far from ideal as some very inefficient code is used on a critical path, and will be rewritten in an efficient manner. Nonetheless tests and bug reports from PowerPC users are very welcome.
Beside this feature the release include:
- A fix to restore YouTube support
- A new AMF3 parser that will be used to provide Local Shared Object (flash cookies) support in a following release.
Packages will be as usually available for Ubuntu Maverick from the PPA for the i386 and amd64 architecture. Packages for PPC are not currently available as launchpad does not support ppc packages.
Lightspark 0.4.2 RC3... almost ready
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Lightspark on July 17, 2010
Having now sound synchronization fully working Lightspark has all the feature programmed for the 0.4.2 release! So no new big changes will be introduced, except for critical bugs reported.
But there are more big news! As I’ve revamped the plugin by switching from the old deprecated Xt interface to GTK, Lightspark has also gained Chrome/Chromium Plugin support and support for the new Out Of Process mode offered by newer versions of Firefox for improved stability and crash free experience.
Moreover, a contributor is currently porting Lightspark for the PowerPC platform and the work is currently in a very advanced stage. So PPC guys cheer up, Flash is coming!
I’m not sure those feature will be stable enough for the final 0.4.2 but will be surely included in the early 0.4.3 release cycle.