ZonoBurk Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 (edited) Change Log Thanks ClintEastman :) For IE and AOL users: Download Here For Netscape, Mozilla & Opera users: Download Here For Mac OS X users: Download Here Edited July 12, 2005 by Mike162006 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 What are the major changes coming in 8.0? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586203174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowdawg Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Thanks Mike, Downloading now. :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586203197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code.Red Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Ooh, can't wait until someone finds a changelog... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586203535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZonoBurk Posted July 12, 2005 Author Share Posted July 12, 2005 The only thing I've found so far is: The purpose of this beta is to gather your feedback so that Macromedia can verify that: The new Macromedia Flash Player is compatible with existing content. Developers have an opportunity to test their content and applications prior to the product release to help identify bugs on a variety of machines and configurations. New installation mechanisms provide a smooth end-user installation experience. At the main site. I'm sure someone will find a real change log soon. :shifty: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586203602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintEastman Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Quote Performance- Greatly improved ActionScript performance - A new feature that we're working on called "Bitmap Caching" which essentially freezes a MovieClip at run-time as a bitmap, with all vector data still maintained, and allows the player to greatly cut down on processor stress by just shifting pixels around the screen instead of recalculating every vector at every frame. When vector data changes, the cached MovieClip is recalculated. - Further optimizations in the Mac Player. You'll notice in the keynote video that the demos were all done on the Mac - on purpose. Expressiveness - A new "Filters" API that allows Flash users to apply effects like drop shadow, blur, glow, bevel, etc at run-time, without adding file size. They also have full control over these effects at run-time, which means you can fully animate the effects. - New precise control over pixels. Not much shown here, just hinted at. :-) - A new text rendering engine - arguably among the best in the industry. Video - A new video codec, among the best in the industry. Superior quality without adding file size. - Support for the alpha channel in video. This is super-cool. Users will be able to overlay video with transparency (even semi-transparent objects like water, fire, or smoke) on any other Flash asset, including interactive elements. 8ball and Maelstrom sneaks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586203616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriz Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Thanks for the heads up (Y) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586203642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintEastman Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/event...004/video/2004/ (click on "Day 1" and then the second thumbnail from the right) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586204284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWahbinator Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 More importantly, when will they come out with a new Flash, even a new Studio suite? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586204605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetman Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Pwn3r said: More importantly, when will they come out with a new Flash, even a new Studio suite? 586204605[/snapback] it will be awhile im guessing they were bought by Adobe Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586204609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsnotabigtruck Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 thetman said: it will be awhile im guessing they were bought by Adobe 586204609[/snapback] This new Flash Player is the client end of the new Flash product. Macromedia always releases a new Flash authoring tool at the same time as a new Flash Player. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586204691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintEastman Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 8ball = Flash 2005 (8) Maelstrom = Flash Player 8 So yes im guessing 8ball will be out quite soon as those demo vids are from last year. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586205798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premgenius Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 cool....still wish there was a way to up the Flash player on the Macromedia Studio CD :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586205810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 And no Linux beta in sight :-( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586205812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeBonJoey Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 any news on the new flash software too? :blink: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586205817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yodat Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 It didn't worked with my Firefox... Btw, the uninstaller program Macromedia provided to go back to Flash 7 also uninstalls IE's plugin, not just Firefox, keep in mind. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586205820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintEastman Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 By the way, there is an official BETA player site:- http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/public_beta/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586206065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerxes Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Cool, thx :D :happy: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586206154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwod Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 yodat said: It didn't worked with my Firefox...Btw, the uninstaller program Macromedia provided to go back to Flash 7 also uninstalls IE's plugin, not just Firefox, keep in mind. 586205820[/snapback] i have no problem with Firefox 1.04, 1.05 , Alpha 1, some nightlies and now the Alpha 2. So far on most cases i can see at least 20 - 30% performance improvement. ( You can test with sites or Flash that normally eat up 100% CPU usage and see the difference ) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586206216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yodat Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 iwod said: i have no problem with Firefox 1.04, 1.05 , Alpha 1, some nightlies and now the Alpha 2.So far on most cases i can see at least 20 - 30% performance improvement. ( You can test with sites or Flash that normally eat up 100% CPU usage and see the difference ) 586206216[/snapback] I tried with Firefox 1.04 (before upgrade) & 1.05, used official installers both standalone exe and new upgrade mechanism but still don't get to work. Opera worked without any problem. I think it may be related one of my Firefox Extensions: Adblock / Flashgot / Dictionary Search / Paste & Go / Tabbrowser Preferences / GSuggest / Forecastfox / downthemAll Flash 7 is working fine with this config so there has to be something broken somewhere... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586206254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Excellent, thanks. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586206322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gahbmwM5 Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 First of all, thanks for the 'heads up', as I am presently utilizing a FF Trunk (Hourly) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005071217 I first used the Macromedia 'uninstaller FlashPlayer7_Windows.exe' and was able to install both FlashPlayer8 in DAP 1.1a2 build and in IE without incident... Went to the Macromedia site to check on the 'installation' and all was fine, as I too have Shockwave Player: Extensions installed: TBP 1.2.7.1 MiniT 20050216.6 enh by Samir GMail Notifier 0.4.3 Compact Menu 1.7.2 Nightly TesterTools 0.5 Was writing a email in GMail and wanted to get a link to the Macromedia 'uninstaller FlashPlayer7_Windows' tool, and after the Main page of the Macromedia site came up fine, when clicking on the Support link, FF froze... Had to kill it from TaskMng, and then the Talkback Report appeared, which I (of course) sent to Mozilla Dev...Opened up DPA 1.1a2 again after clearing cache, and went directly to the same Macromedia links (that just crashed) and all was fine... Will now report this incident on Mozillazine Forums, to see what other reports are showing up... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586206756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gahbmwM5 Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 Ok...if you follow that this was a dupe of two other Flash8_Beta Bugzilla Crash Reports, as it is happening on all platforms...No problem because 'searching through Bugzilla' prior to knowing whether to file a Report is no picnic. Three of the 'cc' within this Bugzilla Report are addressed to Macromedia Flash Developers... This from FF Dev, JP: ----- Additional Comment #6 From Jay Patel 2005-07-14 18:17 PDT [reply] ------- Adding FF11a2 to summary and topcrash+ keyword since we have a patch. This is currently the #1 topcrasher for Deer Park Alpha 2: http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports...opcrashers.html Looks like we have a good idea of what's going on here, but you can always browse through Talkback data for more info: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300572 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/343433-macromedia-flash-player-80-beta/#findComment-586216364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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