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Zobbster

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« on: July 16, 2004, 09:17:00 AM »
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Zobbster

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« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2004, 10:23:00 AM »
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wazm0

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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2004, 11:14:00 PM »
i posted about this not long ago, no luck. i have about 100 flash movies and i would love to be able to watch them on my tv through the xbox. but as i said, no luck with an app like this so far.
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Zobbster

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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2004, 04:53:00 AM »
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JimmyGoon

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« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2004, 11:38:00 AM »
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Does anyone else get what I'm saying?
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world in an oyster

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« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2004, 03:36:00 PM »
couldn't you get linxbox to run it?
Im sure it has some limited flash capabilities....and it can search the local drives.
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ysbox

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« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2004, 07:51:00 AM »
QUOTE (world in an oyster @ Jul 20 2004, 11:39 PM)
couldn't you get linxbox to run it?
Im sure it has some limited flash capabilities....and it can search the local drives.

Nope.

Flash is proprietary technology from Macromedia, and they only make players for a few platforms along with plugins for IE and Mozilla. The only way to have a legal copy of the Flash Player's source code is to have their SDK, and they give it away only to big companies (to put it in cellphones and so on). And there's royalties to pay if you use Flash in your app.
It's all explained here: http://www.macromedi...sourcecode/faq/

However, there's an open source Flash decoder at:
http://gplflash.sf.net
Those interested in making a port should probably check out that. Currently support is limited (barely any sound, flash <=4 only...) but it seems quite portable. I tested it and it runs some movies quite well though (the Happy Tree Friends for example tongue.gif).
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Pender

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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2004, 08:40:00 AM »
This is why we should all revile proprietary file formats... just sayin...
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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2006, 04:16:00 AM »
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JayDee

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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2006, 12:58:00 PM »
Two posts, one 2½ year old thread bumped in the XBMP forum and one +1½ year old thread bumped here...

The time you took to reg and post shows you have 1: to much spare time or 2: Are very new to forums.

Please stop doing this as it will create flames and other bs threads and we do not want that...
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