Troubleshooting AIR 1.5 on Linux

Posted by on Dec 19, 2008 in AIR | 1 comment

The AIR team has just published a pretty comprehensive blog post that can help you if you run in to a problem while installing AIR 1.5 on your Linux machine. In all honesty, I also ran in to a few glitches when I tried to install it on my Ubuntu machine… and the reason was very simple. I did not read the release notes (PDF). If I had done that, I would have known to remove any previous version of the AIR runtime and all AIR applications before installing AIR 1.5. Doh!

From now on, I will read the release notes before I install anything… Well… Probably not… But this certainly is a lesson learnt. ;-)

HD video now available to over 80% of internet connected PCs

Posted by on Jul 12, 2008 in Flash Player, News, Video | Comments Off

Just a couple of days ago, Flash Player senior product manager Justin Everett-Church announced the updated Flash Player penetration stats. This update shows that now 81.7% (in mature markets) of internet connected PCs now have Flash Player 9.0.115. The release of that version of the Flash Player brought the Flash Player cache for Flex framework caching, hardware-scaled full screen, multi-core rendering, and H.264/AAC HD video.

If you didn’t know this, the Flash Player can easily play back a 1080p high-definition video. And the cool thing about this is, that this HD video is really a part of your Flash app like any other movieclip or asset meaning you can also do things like masking, rotating and animating it. If you wanted, you could even use it on a 3D plane with Papervision!

To be fair, Europe is a little behind on this particular version. But 78.6% is still a lot better than any other HD capable players out there!