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"We focused on taking Macromedia Flash Player 8 video capabilities to a new level and On2 Technologies' video codec is a key part of that effort," said David Mendels , general manager, Macromedia. “Because On2's video compression technology ensures millions of Internet users will experience high-quality and feature-rich Flash Video experiences, they are an important partner.”
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The idea of a separate Flash Player is interesting. A lot of folks hope Gnash, and open source SWF movie player,can come up to speed with the current Flash Player so that Linux folks have an open source alternative to Adobe's player. SWF is an open standard, but because of the license associated with the SWF SDK, you can't use it to reverse-engineer the player. For Adobe, having a bunch of fragmented players around that all display Flash movies is a very bad thing because it can make for a poor user experience if the players aren't consistent.
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Compared to other plug-ins such as Java, Acrobat Reader, QuickTime or Windows Media Player, the Flash Player has a small install size, quick download time, and fast initialization time. However, care must be taken to detect and embed the Flash Player in (X)HTML in a W3C compliant way. A simple and widely used workaround is provided below:
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The Macromedia Flash Player is distributed more widely than any other software on the Internet, reaching over 98% of personal computers connected to the web. On2 Flix Live provides this massive audience with live video that is superior in quality and reliability to competing formats that require large media player downloads and complicated user configuration. Macromedia, now Adobe, selected On2 VP6 in 2004 as the advanced compression technology for its Macromedia Flash 8 family of products.
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The Adobe Flash Player started supporting Windows Vista as of 9,0,28. This is the current version, but you may know it as the version that introduced full screen support. Earlier player versions are not built to support Vista, though for the most part they should run pretty well.
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The Adobe Flash Player is mainly optimized for the Windows 32 bit platform. 32 bit editions of version 9 are ... available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris. Adobe has been criticized
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