Who knew! I just downloaded the newest build of Flash Player 9 for Linux and I am very surprised. I really thought it was going to suck. The playback is fast and smooth. There’s some demos available on Flashguru.com.

The biggest update for flash is the support of h264 video. It plays quicktime h264 and Mpeg4 h264 files natively. They’ve also added (and for good reason) simple acceleration. The demos on the page are true 720p HD clips. Full screen mode looks amazing.

This is where things get interesting. The open Flash implementation called Gnash, in my opinion should easily decode the h264 stream with little work. All the source to decoding h264 and AAC are already part of the Mplayer project. It’s an open standard. Lets hope.

Anyways, I await the arrival of our first HD youtube.

This is a bitchin animation I found called ‘Sigg Jones.’ It’s french made, but has a very Japanese / Jamie Hewlett style.

I couldn’t find a good copy of it. All I was able to find was the Youtube clip. I grabbed the flash version off of the official page and uploaded them on to mediafire.

Quicktime

Xvid

Enjoy them, they’re fantastic.

It’s not even 7 A.M. here in California but the torrents for gutsy are on fire already. So to help, I got the torrents hosted* and ready to grab.

Ubuntu Desktop i386

Ubuntu Desktop AMD64
Ubuntu Alternative i386
Ubuntu Alternative AMD64

*Coral CDN mirrors that is. Don’t kill me server!

This is a simple trick to convert 60i DV to 24p for video projects. I used AviDeMux [ http://avidemux.org/ ] which is Free and runs on OSX. Windows, and Linux.

Created with GTKrecordmydesktop, Cinelerra, AviDeMux, and LMMS for the music.

iPod – h264 – Theora