Back in August Adobe reversed its decision to stop offering an NPAPI Flash plugin for Linux and promised that version 23 would come Penguinistas' way real soon now.
At the time the decision was greeted with surprise, because Adobe had not thought to update Flash for Linux since 2012's version 11.2. But the company decided that Linux users deserved a security upgrade to the infamously hole-ridden product.
It turns out the company fibbed, because it's now delivered version 24 of the plugin to Linux users, making this a thirteen-version jump between releases*.
That's the same version number offered to Windows and Mac users, but the new Linux version lacks features found on those other platforms. Linux users willing to put up with almost-certainly-insecure** will therefore have to put up with missing 3D acceleration from GPUs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:47PM
browser vendors still don't support playing rtsp directly in browser via html5 video. they're too busy arguing about whether they are socialist enough or how better to screw their users. so surveillance cams use flash or windows plugins or you can needlessly transcode each stream with ffmpeg, etc. that's fine with a cam or two at 720p. not so much with 16 cams at 1440p.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday December 31 2016, @10:16PM
>not so much with 16 cams at 1440p.
Oh, come on, you can co-locate NUCs, one per 4 cameras, and have them do the transcode for you.
Yeah, it sucks.
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