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*www.imgx.org/files/1615_xzkhl/Adobe-Releases-Flash-Player-9-Update-Beta-for-Linux-2.pngAdobe Labs announced yesterday yet another prerelease version of their award winning Flash Player 9 Update software, for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. This new beta version brings a lot of features and improvements over the previous releases, such as:
- Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.
- Multi-core support for vector rendering.
- Full screen mode with hardware scaling.
- Flash Player cache for common platform components, such as the Flex framework.
- When creating a "playlist" consisting of an MP3 stream preceded by an FLV stream of the same sample rate, the MP3 audio does not play back correctly.
- H.264 support and full-screen hardware scaling are at alpha quality.
- H.264 files using the loop filter flag render with artifacts on multi-core systems.
- Playing odd-width movies (with screen widths not divisible by 16), in full-screen mode, may cause a crash.
- Opera and Netscape do not allow recursive calls using the ExternalInterface API into the Flash Player.
- Download the tar.gz archive and extract it.
- Enter the install_flash_player_9_linux directory, open a terminal and type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer.
- Hit Enter and the installer will instruct you to close any opened browsers.
- Hit Enter again, choose an installation method and follow the instructions.
- Once the installation is complete, the plug-in will be installed in your Firefox or Opera browsers.
- Verify the installation here.
