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2006-09-14

QuickTime 7.1.3 Stops Flash Playback

There are a couple of bugs in Flash Player that could potentially let bad people do bad stuff. The Flash Player 9.0.16.0. updater fixes these, but the problem gets worse since the latest QuickTime 7.1.3 patch stops Flash playback.

As I promised before, I'll post more about SVT's bold move to use Flash as a real-time, fullscreen broadcast playback engine for the upcoming election on Sunday.

- Jonas

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 Thursday, September 14, 2006

3 Comments:

  • I'm pretty sure this will be a permanent change to the default in QuickTime because there's no way to secure Flash 5 era content from the security problems that were fixed with the latest release of Flash 9 (anything earlier has security problems). Since QT is stuck at Flash 5 era support the only sensible (ie not going to get them sued for leaving a security breach unfixed) is to turn off Flash by default.

    My suggestion - put an image track behind the Flash track, with a message that says "If you can see this image, turn on Flash playback by going to Preferences > Advanced etc"

    Philip

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, September 14, 2006  

  • Philip,

    Sounds reasonable! I'm unsure how common it is to embed older SWFs in QuickTime wrappers, but I doubt that many users will fidget with settings just to view something.

    PS. Keep up the good work on DPB, I've been a listener since the DV Guys days!

    By Blogger Jonas Hummelstrand, at Thursday, September 14, 2006  

  • Thanks for the kind comments. Flash in QuickTime is very common for interactive QuickTime for interface elements and for consistent text display. While interactive QuickTime isn't as ubiquitous as Flash, there would be millions of items of content out there now that are broken.

    Philip

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, September 15, 2006  

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