Reading lots of news~Mozilla blocking it on Firefox....what's the scoop folks?
The flash player is "only" about 16MB if I recall. Most flash files are .flv I think, and VLC runs them fine off the desktop. Maybe you could save the file first?
Reading lots of news~Mozilla blocking it on Firefox....what's the scoop folks?
When I updated Adobe it had 960MB in the total download file; when I look at the file in windows it doesn't show any, so it must be hidden. VLC is a Linux program; I believe
The flash player is "only" about 16MB if I recall. Most flash files are .flv I think, and VLC runs them fine off the desktop. Maybe you could save the file first?
Could it have been KBs? Adobe uses a stub installer of about that size, and keeps the main installer on its site. It also automatically deletes the stub when the install is done, which might explain you not seeing it?
Reading lots of news~Mozilla blocking it on Firefox....what's the scoop folks?
Flash has been around forever it seems~~what will not work if it is gone? I know occasionally I stumble across a site with the iPod Touch that won't work because it requires flash but that is rare.
Latest Adobe Flash Player plugin (PPAPI) is only 18.3 MB and is just a single file which only runs flash content in Web Browsers. You must have other things from Adobe to get so huge download.I got a video sent by my sister by email, just the other day, that wouldn't run because Adobe flash player wasn't enabled (had disabled it following advice about a display video graphics glitch) so enabled it; video ran no problem. I had finally downloaded the latest Adobe updates, a week or so ago, and why is Adobe so huge!; 480MB in the x reader and almost one GB in the flash player; no wonder it is easy to hack.
No. The encoding format is different. It would be like plugging in telephone wires to TV and trying to play it on TV.I have, in addition to windows media player, QuickTime player, and Realplayer; can't any of these run flash videos?
Nopes. The file flash plays is an "swf" file designed using Adobe Macromedia Design Suite. This file contains a function of a video player and some animations. It uses the address as an input and gets the location of the movie in the server, streams it to your browser temp cache and plays it to you without disclosing the location of the movie.Most flash files are .flv I think, and VLC runs them fine off the desktop. Maybe you could save the file first?
Latest Adobe Flash Player plugin (PPAPI) is only 18.3 MB and is just a single file which only runs flash content in Web Browsers. You must have other things from Adobe to get so huge download.
No. The encoding format is different. It would be like plugging in telephone wires to TV and trying to play it on TV.
Wrong (well, except for Quicktime, but not because it's impossible). All three of those players rely on existing frameworks to handle video decoding. WMP uses Media Foundation and DirectShow (formerly/maybe still uses Video for Windows), in that order, and as far as I ever knew, the later versions of RealPlayer (seriously, why?) are also DirectShow-based. All someone needs to do is install LAV Filters and voila, Flash Video support (although getting it to take priority in WMP may mean using the DirectShow Tweaker Tool to force its merit higher).No. The encoding format is different. It would be like plugging in telephone wires to TV and trying to play it on TV.mnorian said:I have, in addition to windows media player, QuickTime player, and Realplayer; can't any of these run flash videos?
Oh, it does disclose it. There's no way to transmit the information without knowing where it comes from. They just don't make it easy to find the information - oftentimes it's behind multiple layers of obfuscation and cryptographic hoops incurred by the maze of files that the player VM relies on, but it is there. Otherwise there wouldn't be programs that explicitly offer direct download or playback access to the files by decoding the information the SWF layer sends, with or without the use of RTMP.Nopes. The file flash plays is an "swf" file designed using Adobe Macromedia Design Suite. This file contains a function of a video player and some animations. It uses the address as an input and gets the location of the movie in the server, streams it to your browser temp cache and plays it to you without disclosing the location of the movie.
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