1.0 Introduction 1.1 Project/Component Working Name: Adobe - flash player plugin upgrade in solaris 1.2 Purpose This project will upgrade the Flash Player plugin in solaris to version 10.1. 1.3 Name of Document Author/Supplier: Leon Sha (leon.sha@sun.com) 1.4 Email Aliases: 1.4.1 Responsible Manager: leo.binchy@sun.com 1.4.2 Responsible Engineer: leon.sha@sun.com 1.4.3 Interest List: desktop-cteam@sun.com 2.0 Description Adobe Flash Player is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content. Designs, animation, and application user interfaces are deployed immediately across all browsers and platforms, attracting and engaging users with a rich Web experience. 2.1 Installation Location As noted in section 2 of the opinion for LSARC/2002/745, the installation location for plugins was /plugins. For Solaris 10 the browser installation location is /usr/sfw/lib/mozilla. For OpenSolaris the browser installation location is /usr/lib/firefox. 3.0 Delivery The Flash Player plugin which is bundled with solaris will be upgraded to the latest version (version 10.1). This version is compatible with the previous version (version 10.0). The installation location will be /plugins (see section 2.1). This release will be available as part of the SVr4 SUNWflash-player-plugin package. This project is targeting a patch release of Solaris 10. For opensolaris it will be in extras repositorie. https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra/ 4.0 Technical Description 4.1 New features compared with 10.0 * Introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth, high quality video with minimal overhead on supported systems. * The new global error handler enables developers to write a single handler to process all runtime errors that were not part of a try/catch statement. * New ActionScript globalization APIs allow Flash Player to use the values chosen in the operating system preferences to process text and lists and present information based on location context, without any knowledge of locale requirements. * Offers enhanced conformance to consistent browser usability guidelines, ensuring optimized user experiences and improved user control over privacy. * Abides by the host browser's "private browsing" mode, where local data and browsing activity are not persisted locally, providing a consistent private browsing mechanism for SWF and HTML content. * Prevents out-of-memory browser crashes by shutting down instances where a SWF attempts to allocate more memory than is available on the device. * Includes a number of media quality of service improvements and is ready to take advantage of upcoming Adobe media servers that will provide new ways to deliver rich media experiences and create new business models. * HTTP streaming enables delivery of video-on-demand and live streaming using standard HTTP servers, or from HTTP servers at CDNs, leveraging standard HTTP infrastructure and SWF-level playback components. * Stream reconnect allows an RTMP stream to continue to play through the buffer even if the connection is disrupted, thereby making media experiences more tolerant of short term network failures and enabling non-disruptive video playback. * Smart seek allows you to seek within the buffer and introduces a new "back" buffer so you can easily rewind or fast forward video without going back to the server, reducing the start time after a seek. * Buffered stream catch-up allows developers to set a target latency threshold that triggers slightly accelerated video playback to ensure that live video streaming stays in sync with real time over extended playback periods. * The Dynamic Streaming capability introduced in Flash Player 10 and FMS 3.5 is enhanced to improve switching times between bitrates, reducing the time to receive the best content quality for available bandwidth and processing speed. * Access binary data of the live and continuous waveform coming from the microphone to create new types of audio applications, such as audio recording for transcoding, karaoke, vocoder voice manipulation, sonographic analysis, pitch detection, and more. For the detail information you can find them in copied adobe web pages. * materials/Flash_Player_10.1_Release_Notes.pdf 4.2 Interface Classification The project exports the following interfaces: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Interfaces Exported | +-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Interface Name | Classification | Comment | +-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | SUNWflash-player-plugin | Uncommitted | updated | +-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | web/firefox/plugin/flash | Uncommitted | updated | +-----------------------------------------+------------------+----------------------+ | libflashplayer.so | Volatile | Updated | +-----------------------------------------+------------------+----------------------+ The project imports the following interface: +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Interfaces Imported | +-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | Interface Name | Classification | Comment | +-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | /plugins | Volatile | upgraded from | | | | LSARC/2002/745 | +-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | plugin API | Volatile | upgraded from | | | | LSARC/2002/745 | +-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ 5.0 References 1. Other Related ARC Cases: LSARC/2008/704 Adobe - flash player plugin upgrade in solaris LSARC/2008/158 Firefox 3 for Solaris Nevada. LSARC/2007/145 Macromedia - flash player plugin upgrade in solaris. LSARC/2006/694 Firefox 2 for Solaris Nevada and Solaris10 Update. LSARC/2005/676 Macromedia flash player plugin integration into Solaris. LSARC/2002/745 Sun Branded Mozilla Browser. 2. Mozilla case opinion: http://sac.sfbay.sun.com/arc/LSARC/2002/745/opinion.txt