Posting from Playstation 3 on Yellow Dog Linux 5.0
December 27th, 2006
To bad there is not a Flash Player 9 for Linux PowerPC distros or I would be coding Flex right now. So I am writing this post on my Playstation 3 using Yellow Dog linux 5.0 (the free version was just released today) as the “Other OS” on the box. The installation process was not that terrible hard. I was not able to install the Flash Player 7 or 9, and am not sure there is any Linux PowerPC Flash Players out there, any one know?
I am running off the wired network port, it would be cool if I could find the driver for the wireless card in the Playstation 3 itself. Other quirks is the whole HDMI to DVI only capable of connecting to HDCP ready devices. I am currently doing a 720p out through component into a VGA box converter into my monitor. Its not bad but nothing like true 1080p would be. Been sick for the last couple of days, what a time to get the flu bug, so I haven’t had all the time I wanted to get messing around with the Playstation 3. Maybe you’ll hear more on it later from me for now I am off to play some games.
Entry Filed under: Adobe Flex, Computer Hardware, Flash
8 Comments Add your own
1. Josh | 2006-12-28 at 3.34 pm
You might be able to try the open source Gnash player.
2. Renaun Erickson | 2006-12-28 at 4.15 pm
I did look at the Gnash player. It is quite limited, no FLV support and no full AMF support. Doesn’t help with the Flex stuff either as its Flash Player 7 specs as of yet.
On the flip side I tried just using mxmlc with a Java PPC64 JRE, but had no success. It was fun trying anyways.
3. JohnP | 2006-12-31 at 4.16 pm
Does the BETA from this page not work for the version of Linux you are using?
“This release includes bug fixes and support for additional operating systems—specifically Linux.”
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/
4. Renaun Erickson | 2007-01-01 at 10.04 am
This is the one that I tried. It does not work as its compiled for i386 architecture. There is a PowerPC Mac OS version of the Flash Player, but it does not work with Linux PowerPC. At least I am not aware of how to make it work.
5. Troy Vitullo | 2007-01-07 at 5.11 pm
In the interest of full disclosure let me say first I work for Terra Soft.
There’s a link off the Terra Soft web site that details our efforts to get
Adobe to port Flash to the PowerPC. Here’s the link:
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-announce/2006-October/000129.html
Best,
Troy Vitullo
6. Renaun Erickson | 2007-01-07 at 8.30 pm
Thanks for the info.
7. Steve | 2007-02-26 at 3.34 am
There was an organised campaign to request a Linux PowerPC Flash Player from Adobe. Been trying to search for any success but have not found a response or install from the company.
Did Adobe ignore these requests? Shame
8. thomas | 2007-04-23 at 12.42 pm
You can play FLV movies with ffplay (and any other movie format)
even broken videos
ffplay is part of ffmpeg
if you dont have it, try :
“yum install ffmpeg”
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