Adobe Flash Player 9 update out

The plugin formerly known as 'Moviestar' -- Adobe's H.264-capable version of the Flash player -- is now officially released for the Mac (along with Windows and Linux) and downloadable from Adobe's site. Sure, it can play back HD and fullscreen video, but will it reduce the performance hit that Mac users take whenever a Flash movie pops into a browser window? Let you know as soon as we try it.

As our buddy David noted, if you've been running an early beta version of Flash 9 you may want to run Adobe's uninstaller before upgrading.

In terms of the wider online video market, the adoption of the H.264 codec solidifies the QuickTime/Flash axis of power in a big way. Content owners with libraries of QuickTime movies in H.264 now can republish for Flash without reencoding, and YouTube's effort to convert clips for iPhone use now can be leveraged to provide higher-quality Flash playback as well. Big day for Adobe, good day for video fans and producers.

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Nick

I'm wanting to watch video on krazytube.com with my itouch but it won't let me, it says you only have flashplayer 0, how can I update my flashplayer on itouch.

December 10 2007 at 2:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kelmon

I'm just going to note that this version of Flash breaks an enterprise application that we use at work that uses a Flash-based interface to our documentation repository. We don't know what the problem is with the new version but when running it we are no longer able to log onto the application. This is odd because we've not had issues with new versions of Flash since we deployed the application about 3-years ago (the previous version of Flash 9 was fine, for example). Something has definitely changed here but since I have no idea how widespread the problem will be (hopefully it is just us) this message is a heads-up for people.

December 06 2007 at 3:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

carlo Righini

adobe suck.
bring on Aperture 2.0

December 05 2007 at 7:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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moo

way to be on topic there, killer.

December 05 2007 at 8:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dorco

Why can't they use standard installer packages? Do they have any idea how much work it is to deploy this to 20 machines without a package? Grrrr!!!

December 05 2007 at 6:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

error

Michael, I'm experiencing the same problems. "Searching: Macintosh HD - 4 items to install" and Flash is broken on my MacBook. No problems during the installation on my PPC G5.

Really annoying. Also tried updating to FileMaker 9.0v3 - same thing: "Searching: Macintosh HD" for 90 minutes without installing a single file. Never had any of these problems like this before.

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Michael

I suspect the issue is the VSIE installer. While this is a bit off-topic and out of scope for this blog... curious to know what others have seen.

December 06 2007 at 12:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Tyznik

Why do they have a UB and a PPC-native installer? Why not just a UB or separate Intel and PPC installers?

December 05 2007 at 3:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Michael

Mike, The reason is because they want to support the 10.1 - 10.3 versions of the OS. Sure would be nice though to have an Intel only version as well :)))

December 06 2007 at 12:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mikka

what is the hold up for a ARM flash version? and Michael, could what sparks said be effecting you?

December 05 2007 at 3:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David Chartier

Link and name love from TUAW always warms my heart.

Alright Rose, you win. Once I'm finally 100% done with my thesis on Friday, I'll hop back into the TUAW talkcast and scare all the readers away again.

Mwahaha.

December 05 2007 at 2:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael

%$*@ Adobe! I have tried everything to install this and it just sits there for an hour+ (longest I have let it go). The horrible thing is that on the first attempt it broke my flash!

Still investigating... but if anyone else has Leopard and hangs on step 4 (drive searching) - maybe its a bigger issue?

All users should be aware though. Seems like there are even simple cometic issues when put on Leopard. SHAME on ADOBE!

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Michael

Update: I will need to pull the plugin out of the package as the installer is total bust for me. If you run into this problem as well... there is already an older (tiger) UB version of the plugin at

http://www.jonathansblog.net/media/flash_player_plugin.zip
that was taken from the Tiger install DVD.

You can also pull out the Leopard version from your DVD ( I have not done that yet either ).

Hope this helps people - Just got off the phone with Adobe - and their "Official" word is that "We do not support the Flash Player so there is no way we can help you"

I love adobe - but this fubar if you ask me.

December 05 2007 at 2:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zman

When I go to the download site the link doesn't work. To I needed to change the macromedia to adobe in the url. When I try to install it, it keeps telling me to close all browsers before I can continue. I had none open when I tried to install. Anyone else having problems with the install?

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