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[Martin Warren <elephant_range AT yahoo.com>]

Hi Sindi:

My P1 Celeron (Mendicino) 533MHz and 128M RAM will play flash using Puppy, 
Slitaz, Tinycore, or Crunchbang with some very slight jumps.

Crunchbang used to be based on Debian, but its developers switched sources.  
It is becoming Ubuntu-based.  Version 10 is what I'm running, and it's about 
half-and-half.  The P1 likes Puppy and Slitaz best of these.

About YouTube, I said that Windows supports the 240p option, but yes the 360p 
is the default.  The newest Adobe Flash for Linux does not support 240p AT 
ALL.

Alternatives to Adobe flash are here, though their practicality is...uneven 
at this time:
GNASH:  http://gnashdev.org/
SYNFIG (vector-based flash animation): http://www.synfig.org/cms/
F4L: http://f4l.sourceforge.net/

I will post more later on this, but I've got to get back to work.


Cheers,

-Martin.





--- On Wed, 8/17/11, sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG> wrote:

> From: sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>
> Subject: Re: [BL] Flash player
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 8:52 AM
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Martin Warren
> wrote:
> 
> > The last version which worked on DSL Linux was Flash
> 7.  I have Puppy 4.31 on an AMD K-6 , and it jumps a lot
> but it works.  #!Crunchbang 10 works fine.  Tinycore has
> no problems keeping current.
> 
> What are Crunchbang's memory requirements?
> I find that 600Mhz is the slowest cpu that displays youtube
> videos
> online without being too jerky.  Do they play better
> offline?
> 
> > One of the things that I dislike about YouTube these
> days is that the minimum rate for videos is 360p.
>  Strangely, Windows still allows streaming at 240p.
> 
> Last time I checked, many videos at Youtube were 360 by
> default with the option of 240.
> 
> > Gnash or Synfig kind-of work on some linux distros,
> but as soon as they get close to YouTube's current
> parameters, YouTube updates its requirements!
> 
> What are these?
> 
> > As it is, when running Damn Small Linux on my P1
> machine, I render YouTube videos by running them through
> VLC, or the KeepVid or Vixy.net websites, converting the
> flash vids to .avi, and playing them back in Xine or
> Mplayer.  In all likelihood, you could do the same in BL3
> ... but you must meet your video player's dependencies
> first.
> 
> There is an mplayer-uclibc which works in BL3 but does not
> support older CPUs such as i586 (including AMD-K6) and P54C
> (even older).  I compiled mplayer for these but without
> x support (use svgalib or fbdev, less ram). http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/ 
> Upgrade to the SW11
> glibc which requires 2.4 kernel (also at my site), which
> will also support Seamonkey 1.1.x (as well as Firefox 2 from
> DSL and Opera 9.63 - you can download my firelibs.tgz or
> operalib.tgz packages and read my blfiles.htm for
> instructions).
> 
> Booting laptops (or other LCD machines) with fb console
> disables svgalib.
> fb console support is found in some 133MHz and lacking in
> some 233MHz.
> Most of my 2.4 kernel include it but you can boot without
> the vga= line.
> Would you play downloaded youtube videos (240p) at 233MHz
> or less?
> svgalib on my 233Mhz without fb only works at
> 640x480.  Why do you want to watch flash videos on
> machines that slow?
> 
> I was unable to play DVDs usefully on my 475MHz K-6 or my
> 266MHz PII (both i586) with the mplayer for i586 with video
> support (no x11).  I have not tried playing .avi on
> these (and the former no longer works online).  Is it
> very jerky, or do you use any special switches or
> resolutions?
> 
> > Oddly, I AM able to do this in IBM PC-DOS 6.1 on my
> ANCIENT 486dx2 (!!!) using DUGL Player!!! .  Perhaps
> someone can make a project of porting this to Linux, as
> Cubic .mp3 player was!
> 
> Sindi
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