Flash video Playback method in Ubuntu system

There are a lot of flash players available in the Ubuntu system, and here we introduce two of the most popular flash playback software, the official Adobe Flash Player and the open source Swfdec, to help you play flash video. This article describes the Ubuntu Desktop 9.04.

　　First, use Adobe Flash Player to play flash video

Because Adobe Flash Player is open source software and is subject to Adobe Copyright, most Linux distributions do not provide Flash-related packages by default. Therefore, in the Ubuntu system, to normally play Flash animation, you must manually install the appropriate software package, including support for Firefox browser Flash plug-in and flash Standalone player (individual Flash player).

After installing the Ubuntu system, the first time to run the Firefox browser, when a visit to a site using flash technology, the browser will be prompted to install the appropriate plug-ins to do normal browsing. There are two ways to install Flash plug-ins for Firefox browsers: One is in the Firefox browser, click on the Flash Object area, by the system automatically search available Flash Plug-ins, after the search, will eject the Flash plug-in installation window, Flash plug-ins that support Firefox browsers are listed in the window, including Adobe Flash Player, swfdec player for Adobe/macromedia Flash, gnash SWF player, select Adobe Flash Player Item, install Adobe's Flash browser plugin.

The second option is to download the installation files for the Flash plug-in for the Ubuntu platform from the Adobe official site, the file that ends with. Deb. In the GNOME Integrated desktop environment, double-click the downloaded Install_flash_player_10_linux.deb file to automatically invoke the Gdebi graphical installer for installation.

A separate Adobe Flash Player is included in the developer version of the Flash Player, and the latest Flash developer version of the installation file is downloaded as: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/ Updaters/10/flash_player_10_linux_dev.tar.gz.

To use one of the Flash players, first unzip the downloaded flash_player_10_linux_dev.tar.gz file and then go into the Flash_player_10_linux_dev/standalone/release directory, Flashplayer.tar.gz decompression, in the release directory to generate Flashplayer files, this is a binary executable, enter the command./flashplayer can run Adobe Flash Player.

Adobe Flash Player and the corresponding browser plug-in is the official Adobe software, using the latest version of the software to play SWF files, whether the video screen or sound is very fluent. However, when using System Monitor to monitor the utilization of the system resources when playing SWF files, it is found that the CPU occupancy rate reaches over 95%, and consumes system resources very badly!

　　Second, use Swfdec Flash Player to play flash video

Swfdec is an open source Flash Player Library, in the form of LGPL protocol, it uses Libart Library to achieve Flash animation rendering, using the GStreamer engine to achieve the ability to play Flash animation. Swfdec includes a standalone flash player swfdec-gnome and browser plugin Swfdec-mozilla.

1. Install Swfdec Software

The Ubuntu system does not have the SWFDEC software installed by default, and if the current system is connected to the Internet, we install the software with the newly-established package manager. To open the New Package Manager window, click the "Search" button on the window toolbar and enter the keyword "Swfdec" in the "Search" dialog box, the search results appear in the Installable Packages list area. Tick the "Swfdec-gnome" and "Swfdec-mozilla" packages and install them.

The current version of Swfdec-gnome is 2.26.0. After installation, in the menu "application" → "Audio and video" can find the "Swfdec Flash Player" item, click on the item to run SWFDEC Flash Player (as shown). In addition, we can download the latest software installation package from the official station of Swfdec.

2. Preview or play Flash files in the Nautilus file browser

Swfdec-gnome is well integrated with the GNOME desktop environment and can directly preview most SWF files in the Nautilus file browser. In the Nautilus file browser, the first screen of the SWF file is displayed as a thumbnail, so you can learn about the file without opening the Flash file. Nautilus file Browser defaults to display files in icon view, such as List view, so the first screen of the SWF file appears in front of the file name in smaller thumbnails, very intuitive. If you want to play a SWF file, click the right mouse button on the SWF file and select the "Open with Swfdec Flash Player" item in the pop-up shortcut menu, and the SWF file opens and plays in the Swfdec Flash Player.

The current version of the Swfdec Flash Player is much better than the previous version, and when you play the SWF file, the video screen and sound playback are basically smooth, but less than the individual Adobe Flash Player.

Note : More wonderful tutorials Please pay attention to the triple computer tutorial section, triple Computer group: 189034526 welcome you to join