Flashplayer 10.1.102.64 not working on Solaris SPARC system

Report · Dec 17, 2010

I am using the flashplayer plugin with recent versions of Firefox version 3.6.x on a Sun SPARC system running Solaris 10.

The latest version of flashplayer, just like all other versions of the 10.1 series, fails to properly handle the audio stream. You can check it out with the video clip at "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix-S7Sp04KQ&feature=sub", where the audio seems to run at the speed of light compared to the video. I have tried many recent versions of flashplayer, and I constantly have to revert back to version 10.0.450.2 which is the last version that seems to do something of a passable job, although it also has problems.

There has never yet been a version of flashplayer that has worked sucessfully on this system. Although I have a high-speed cable modem connection to the internet, I am unable to stream any HD video content from any source without it constantly stopping to buffer every few seconds. There are many video clips where the sound does not remail in sync with the video and finishes long before the video is over. Often the tail end of the clip is truncated. I don't know what video format they are using at vimeo.com, but nothing from this site plays.

Do other people on SPARC/Solaris systems see these same problems? Are the people porting flashplayer to Solaris aware of these issues?

Regards,

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C. Jeffery Small

Report · Dec 17, 2010

Hi, the only suggestion I can give you is to turn off the hardware acceleration. Go to this test site and Right click on the Flash logo, click on Settings, then UNcheck the h.a. in Display Settings.

I hope this helps you.

Thanks,

eidnolb

Report · Dec 17, 2010

eidnolb:

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try turning this off and see what happens after I switch back to the latest verison of the plugin.

Report · Dec 17, 2010

Hi, thanks. I see the link isn't there, so here it is: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Thanks,

eidnolb

Report · Dec 17, 2010

Well, I'm seeing inconsistent behavior when I go back to some of these troubling flash sites. I'm running multiple browser sessions with the same config. but using different profiles, and some sessions play the flash differently from others! I'm still investigating. But 10.1.102.64 still has a killer problem that I noticed with the earlier releases. In one browser session, flask grabs the hardware audio device while playing flash, but it does not release it when you navigate away from the page containing the flash content. This means that audio is now unavailable to any other browser session until the original browser is killed. This does not happen with the 10.0 version. (Note: my audio device cannot mutliplex multiple audio input streams, so if the device is busy, a second process cannot attach.) If anyone from the development team is reading this, please report this as a bug and investigate what change was made between versions 10.0 and 10.1. Thnaks.