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Inspiring
July 12, 2012
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Who is actually managing the codebase for the Linux PepperFlash implementation

  • July 12, 2012
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I am extremely grateful that Flash on Linux is not being totally abandoned, but rather is continuing on via the Pepper API implementation on Chrome. Still I am very confused as to who actually is managing the Linux Flash Player codebase. Is the code being supplied/maintained by Google or is Adobe providing the code and simply using Google's API to interface with the Linux operating system? Where can we go to for clarification of questions regarding the Linux player?

Some of the issues that have already come up are:

1. Unless I am mistaken, there don't appear to be any official release notes, outside of this page on support.google.com: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=108086

The footnotes on that page are fairly ambigous and can't really qualify as release notes that a developer could rely on.

2. While the pepper flash player version number is at the same level as the Mac/Windows plugins, the supported feature sets are not the same. For example, 11.3 on Mac/Windows now supports multithreaded & hardware accelerated video decoding. According to the URL I mentioned above, multithreaded decoding is not supported, and from what I can figure out empirically GPU accelerated decoding is not yet possible (though postings about Google VAVDA seem to imply that is is available).

3. It is not clear where questions regarding PepperFlash behavior/performance should be posted and where bugs should be reported

Developers that rely on the flash player on Linux are going to need more detail about pepperflash's trajectory for their project planning.

If I am mistaken and someone out there knows where there is a central repository of up-to-date information on Pepper Flash is, please let me know!

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xpojoshAuthor
Inspiring
July 13, 2012

UPDATE:

I spoke with Ami Fischman who is heading up the Google/Chromium team working on incorporating GPU accelerated video decoding into the Pepper Flash player for Chromeos. He confirmed that the vavda/vaapi accelerated decoding is not yet supported on Linux. He mentioned that because Chromeos is based on Linux, when they finish adding the feature for Chromeos they may take a stab at trying to get it working for Linux in general.

If this is a feature that you would like to see, please vote for it here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/i...tail?id=137247

Josh