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  • [^] # Re: troll ?

    Posté par  . En réponse à la dépêche Flash player 8 recherche son ingénieur linux. Évalué à 10.

    In case the message did not come across, but the assembly stuff was just an example of the complexities involved since my limited experience with the aspects of programming on the Linux desktop. Plain and simple, I admit that.

    I am familiar with ffmpeg (I have contributed a little piece of code to it in past in swf.c). In reality we'll almost certainly switch completely to use intrinsics (AMD provides conversion scripts which facilitate that somewhat).

    You are right, using SSE does usually not bring anything useful to the table compared to MMX. SSE is a requirement mainly for WindowsXP-64bit which does not support MMX.

    And yes, another point you right is that Flash is not free, meaning we can't use LPGL or GPL licensed software. Nothing I can do about it, it's a major hurdle. NVidia has an interesting approach, offering an open source shim around their core driver, ideally I would like to see the same for the Linux Flash Player. There are plenty of ideas going around.

    The main reason I am screaming for a Linux specialist within Macromedia is the fact that Flash Player 7 was ported by a reputable, well known company in the Linux space (I wish I could tell you the name). They had a full engineering team working on it for some time. Still, the results were very disappointing. One engineer at Macromedia is just a start and needs to get a handle on the work required, make sure the rest of the engineering team does not introduce more hurdles over time, which would make the port even more difficult. The long term goal is to keep this thing as portable as possible, something we sometimes screw up because we do not understand a platform.