Simple and straightforward question. Is there a way to play Flash content on WP7? For example the use of a sort of 'Skyfire' browser or any other way.
Simple and straightforward answer: No
Flash video? Yes
Flash? No (not yet)
We are trying to think of a better more universal way to play flash video as now its quite tough to get right.
I thought there was no way to play Flash even in iOS and Skyfire. Doesn't skyfire only try to convert/render Flash Videos and does not do true Flash?
Dam I need flash on my other phone
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The app flash video for wp7 allows for some flash videos. I've watched movies and shows like The immortals, jersey shore and the walking dead, but no real browser support though.
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Marvin_S said:
Flash video? Yes
Flash? No (not yet)
We are trying to think of a better more universal way to play flash video as now its quite tough to get right.
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I was reffering to flash videos yes. Flash for anything else is useless anyway. The only other use for it is if flash games are made specifically for mobile phones, but in that case you're better of make a native game anyway.
kekkle said:
I was reffering to flash videos yes. Flash for anything else is useless anyway. The only other use for it is if flash games are made specifically for mobile phones, but in that case you're better of make a native game anyway.
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Flash games allow you to capture all audiences without having to extensively program for each indivual platform. And I am not sure what you mean by specifically for mobile phones.
kekkle said:
I was reffering to flash videos yes. Flash for anything else is useless anyway. The only other use for it is if flash games are made specifically for mobile phones, but in that case you're better of make a native game anyway.
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In this case yes thats possible. We have delivered a proof of concept with metro browser. It plays flash video fine, however the problem is finding the direct links to the flv files for which there is no standard way and all comes down to hacking and reverse engineering the security mechanisms of sites like megavideo/putlocker/novamov a.o.
So yes playing flash on Windows Phone is certainly possible and works extremely well. The problem is obtaining and detecting the flv's itself (which are often hidden).
We really would like to find a more generic and universal solution but at the moment there is none. We would need massive servers like skyfire to prerender every webpage and then capture any flv file. Which is not really possible to accomplish for hobby developers.
To play flash video - as mentioned above, yeah it doable, but its not an exact science yet. Running flash based websites, also runs ActionScript and possibly other scripts from the browser which I'm guessing is probably the real conundrum here. Just try running any kind of flash site from a browser on your PC with all plug-ins disabled, and your security settings popped to the maximum. It won't happen there either.
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My bro wants to buy the captivate but wants to know if he will be able to play those silly games
when you say.. silly games.. do you mean farmville :"> ..
and there are no specified dates.. just guestimates and rumors.
September is all hopes.
Flash I'm not sure, I heard it's out in the app store but I don't have a captivate to know if it works ;o
yeah all those games they like to play...I am more like Stan in South park! lol
I assume flash is flash and it should work.
shaolin95 said:
My bro wants to buy the captivate but wants to know if he will be able to play those silly games
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At the very least, you would have to use a web browser that is capable of switching the user agent to a desktop browser's so that facebook will properly serve up the desktop version of the site. Not sure on the rest though. Dolphin HD is a great browser that will let you switch user agents.
darkamikaze said:
when you say.. silly games.. do you mean farmville :"> ..
Flash I'm not sure, I heard it's out in the app store but I don't have a captivate to know if it works ;o
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I can't find Flash on the app store as of yet.. I thought it was out though because I have seen some people with it listed in their appbrain lists
yes you will! they have a video of froyo on utube and the guy is playing Farmville! YAY
Yes it will work because it works on my iPad (yes my iPad has Flash 10.1 ported from android). The only thing is that if it requires keyboard input then you will need to use a bluetooth keyboard
Yes he can play his facebook flash games.
Flash for android works as well as flash on a desktop.
Theres a couple videos on youtube showing off flash on android and it works really well.
No. Farmville does not work. My n1 will not play it... atleast last time I tried ... I saw the YouTube video where he plays itbtoo, but it says content not supported ....
That was last month, may work now but I doubt it...
Hi,
Why is not supported Silverlight in IE9 ?
When will it be available ?
Thanks for info.
I'm just curious, but why do you need silverlight?
Same reason a lot of people want Flash, you know... Streaming Video and stuff like that...
N8ter said:
Same reason a lot of people want Flash, you know... Streaming Video and stuff like that...
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exactly.
I favorite car web use Silverlight instead flash. I know that flash will never be on windows phone but why not Silverlight, its MS plugin.
Is it enough for explanation ?
maybe in apollo?
i don't remember msft ever saying mango will have Silverlight in the browser...did they?
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Same reason a lot of people want Flash, you know... Streaming Video and stuff like that...
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And do what with it? Interact with those fiddly little video controls using your touchscreen? Zoom in so the player fits the window? Play flash games using your non-existent keyboard?
No, Flash and Silverlight are on their way out as far as streaming videos are concerned. Apple knows this. Microsoft knows this. As for the other uses, such as web apps - the experience using a touch screen wouldn't even be worth it.
I'm considering dropping my iPhone and moving over to the Infuse. That large screen is calling to me.
I have a Nook Color that I have rooted and installed Gingerbread on (thanks to this site) and I really like it. My first question is about Flash and Hulu.com. On my Nook I was able to install a cracked version of Flash that allows me to go directly to Hulu.com and play the videos there in browser. Is that possible on the Infuse?
And my other question was is this phone capable of 1080p playback. My old 3Gs just can't handle it and the Nook will chug along but playback is very slow. I have several videos that are 1080p that I would like to play without having to convert them all first. I saw another thread that the device could play them but not after it had been rooted. Which I guess I'll have to do if I want to play Hulu files.
Thank you.
twopossums said:
I'm considering dropping my iPhone and moving over to the Infuse. That large screen is calling to me.
I have a Nook Color that I have rooted and installed Gingerbread on (thanks to this site) and I really like it. My first question is about Flash and Hulu.com. On my Nook I was able to install a cracked version of Flash that allows me to go directly to Hulu.com and play the videos there in browser. Is that possible on the Infuse?
And my other question was is this phone capable of 1080p playback. My old 3Gs just can't handle it and the Nook will chug along but playback is very slow. I have several videos that are 1080p that I would like to play without having to convert them all first. I saw another thread that the device could play them but not after it had been rooted. Which I guess I'll have to do if I want to play Hulu files.
Thank you.
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Yes it has some ability to play 1080p. Actually more than some Tegra2 dual core devices.
So despite the year old processor it is still able to compete. And Samsung has been putting in multiple codec support and support for mkv sinse the original galaxy s 2 years ago. Multimedia is their area of specialty on phones. Not every 1080 p file will play but you may be able to transcode them to a lower class or bitrate or change the audio encoding which I find is most often the problem on files that don't play.
Also the browser while not the smoothest has a user agent setting accessable in the address bar by typing " about:useragent" just replace the lib for the flashplayer with one that is hex edited to look like the windows flash player and set useragent to desktop ( you can even make your own if you have issues) and clear your cookies and enjoy.
Oh. I thought Hulu had plugged that loop hole/browser trick. At least it didn't work on my Nook.
twopossums said:
Oh. I thought Hulu had plugged that loop hole/browser trick. At least it didn't work on my Nook.
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I thought so too but there are still people with hulu threads. I think when new versions of flash come out they need to work to identify the illegal users again. Also you need to make surecookies are cleared. And it may have something to do with the device as well. They may have a block list but some new devices may sneak through provided the flash player look right but I'm not sure what their servers can actually see.
Guess that puts me in a wait and see category. I was kinda hoping I could just install something like the CM7 mod and then a cracked version of flash like I did on my Nook. That works perfectly.
Thank you for the advice.
You should know that 1080p video playback only works on official AT&T or Froyo-based Infuse ROM's. The current Gingerbread ROM's don't have 1080p support (although the leaked KI3/4 supposedly do, they're not custom ROM's and may have other issues). Also, non-Samsung ROM's like CM7 won't have any of Samsung's hardware-accelerated media codecs (ie. MKV). Even so, playback is going to be affected by bitrate: if the bitrate of a file is too high, you'll either have problems seeking or it won't play at all. If the audio track is an unsupported format (ie. FLAC in an MKV container), you can use MX Video Player and set it to use S/W audio decoding.
As for Hulu, you should be able to get by with hex editing the version in your Flash libraries to the latest Windows/Chrome Flash version, and then setting your useragent in your phone's browser. I haven't tried this recently, but it was still working on my Captivate a month ago.
Well that's cool. If I can get Hulu to work without rooting then I'll be happy. I'll probably leave it stock then so I get the most out of video playback. Thank you very much for te help.
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Well that's cool. If I can get Hulu to work without rooting then I'll be happy. I'll probably leave it stock then so I get the most out of video playback. Thank you very much for te help.
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You'll need to root if you want to modify the Flash libraries within the system Flash apk. Otherwise, you'll have to reapply the modified Flash library every time you reboot the phone.
Hi guys,
Is there any way to download flash videos on our tablet? On my PC I can use a plug in on Firefox to do that but that does not seem to exist on Firefox for Android. There are quite a few Korean dramas that I want to download, but I prefer to use the tf700 instead of my laptop if possible.
Thanks.
huy_lonewolf said:
Hi guys,
Is there any way to download flash videos on our tablet? On my PC I can use a plug in on Firefox to do that but that does not seem to exist on Firefox for Android. There are quite a few Korean dramas that I want to download, but I prefer to use the tf700 instead of my laptop if possible.
Thanks.
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tubemate works for youtube...
http://m.tubemate.net/
you just use the share function... but ... only works with youtube app!
I use TubeMate too, but 1) you can actually use it instead of YouTube app, and 2) it obviously ONLY works for YouTube videos. Jut install it, search for the title of the video, hit the green arrow in the lower right portion of the screen, pick "download" and choose the resolution desired. Et voilá!
Don't sites like keep-tube.com work? (I can't check atm)
ShadowLea said:
Don't sites like keep-tube.com work? (I can't check atm)
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I haven't tested either, but since they routinely require installation of plugins I wouldn't put too much hope on that. This works beautifully -- and a lot faster since it s(up)ports multiple connections.
I thought KeepTube only required Javascript, as it offers the download through the site itself.. Could be wrong, though. (It whined about Javascript when I had NoScript enabled on pc.)
It certainly doesn't require you to keep the video running, though. It doesn't record the stream, but rather plucks the video out of the flash container. Most of those sites work that way.
Thanks guys for your suggestions, but I have been using Tubemate for a while. What I am looking for is the ability to download any flash videos from any sites, not only Youtube (Youtube does not allow copyrighted stuff, so most of my TV series cannot be found there). For a site like Keeptube, it requires a Java applet, which Android does not support. I suspect there is no other alternative to Windows.
Hi friends, just to update you guys on my finding. It turns out the Flash Video Downloader plug-in is available for Firefox for Android. So effectively you can install Firefox on your tablet and install this plug-in to download almost any flash videos from any sites, not only youtube (I have tested it with a few websites and they all work so far).
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Hi friends, just to update you guys on my finding. It turns out the Flash Video Downloader plug-in is available for Firefox for Android. So effectively you can install Firefox on your tablet and install this plug-in to download almost any flash videos from any sites, not only youtube (I have tested it with a few websites and they all work so far).
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And I learn of this after ditching FF for the stock browser... Somehow, I cannot thank via Tapatalk HD, but I'll just do it manually: thanks!
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Hello everybody.I need some help. I donwloaded swf player to play The Binding of Isacc. But there was one problem: swf player couldnt found flash player plugin. I tried a lot of versions of flash(official,modified) - not working. I noticed one thing: when flash was not installed ,there was a messege "flash player not found" but when flash was installed there was no message. Unfortunately, when i tried to launch .swf files,programm said that i have no flash player plugin.(even if flash player installed) (maybe this info will help,if i wrote this rightly,lol)
I tried to fix it for 3 days,so iam tired now.
I have nonrooted Nexus 7 2012 , android 4.4.4
Swf player v.1.67 by issess
I wil be very grateful for any help.
GnomeChompski said:
Hello everybody.I need some help. I donwloaded swf player to play The Binding of Isacc. But there was one problem: swf player couldnt found flash player plugin. I tried a lot of versions of flash(official,modified) - not working. I noticed one thing: when flash was not installed ,there was a messege "flash player not found" but when flash was installed there was no message. Unfortunately, when i tried to launch .swf files,programm said that i have no flash player plugin.(even if flash player installed) (maybe this info will help,if i wrote this rightly,lol)
I tried to fix it for 3 days,so iam tired now.
I have nonrooted Nexus 7 2012 , android 4.4.4
Swf player v.1.67 by issess
I wil be very grateful for any help.
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flash stopped supporting android some time ago, that's probably why it cant get the plug-in.
im not sure if there is a workaround on the forums, you could try searching and see what you find.
This is a game?
I don't know that Flash on Android ever worked with games. It might only work for videos and other non-interactive content (like ads)
Planterz said:
This is a game?
I don't know that Flash on Android ever worked with games. It might only work for videos and other non-interactive content (like ads)
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flash player no longer supports android, i can provide links if you wish.
bweN diorD said:
flash player no longer supports android, i can provide links if you wish.
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Other way around, really.
Firefox, Dolphin, Puffin, and other browsers support Flash, as do many older stock browsers, like the Galaxy S3 and my old Razr Maxx. With these you can watch videos from many websites that haven't moved on to HTML5. And ads too (yay!). But I don't know if Flash based games ever worked on mobile browsers. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. Maybe they did, but don't now.
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Other way around, really.
Firefox, Dolphin, Puffin, and other browsers support Flash, as do many older stock browsers, like the Galaxy S3 and my old Razr Maxx. With these you can watch videos from many websites that haven't moved on to HTML5. And ads too (yay!). But I don't know if Flash based games ever worked on mobile browsers. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. Maybe they did, but don't now.
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were on 2 totally different pages here.
im talking about "adobe flash player", what i believe would be needed to use flash for any app not self supporting (like they used to be).
bweN diorD said:
were on 2 totally different pages here.
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I really don't think we are.
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I really don't think we are.
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i know they have been bringing it back in browsers but that wont help with a game, hence my comments about it being no longer supported.
bweN diorD said:
i know they have been bringing it back in browsers but that wont help with a game, hence my comments about it being no longer supported.
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Yeah, that's what I've been saying.