ANN : New Flash Player Available : 6,0,29,0

[MikeChambers]

ANN : New Flash Player Available : 6,0,29,0

We have released a new version of the Macromedia Flash Player 6 for all web platforms.

The new player is 6,0,29,0 and is available from:

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/...ShockwaveFlash

The new player fixes the following issues:

1. Interrupting of loading media into player does not halt, rather queues and loads entire file.
2. LoadSound continues to download even though the object is stopped, unloaded, or deleted
3. When an event sound is playing and the sound object gets deleted, the sound still plays even though there are no more references to the sound object.
4. Large Media (video, MP3) causes Flash Player to lock up.

For information on how to ensure that your users have the latest version, check out the technote at:

http://www.macromedia.com/go/16267

which will be updated shortly.

We realize that the community has been waiting sometime for this new release, and we apologize the delay. The issues were much more significant than we initially thought. Finally, we would like to thank the Flash community for bringing the issue to our attention, helping us test the new player, and most of all for their patience.

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com
[Edited by MikeChambers on 05-01-2002 at 07:46 PM]

[Kasyx]

Finally! A player upgrade..

I hope this one isn't as buggy.

[Antibody]

Nice. Thanks Mike and thanks Macromedia!!

[Jonathan_B]

Hi.
How do you get the new flashplayer.exe if you own Flash MX?
jb

[Musicman]

We have released a new version of the Macromedia Flash Player 6 for all web platforms

Hi Mike, it still says 5.0.48 for Linux....

Musicman

[zeroEra]

Mike,

This sounds great.

But... have you heard anything back regarding the MacIE loadVariables bug that we were discussing in this thread:
http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=299663

Please advise.
Thanks,
ZE.

[jeavon]

Hi Mike,
Thanks for the new plugin but I have following questions:

1. How can i patch the authoring environment to use the new plugin?
2. How can i make exe's that use the new plugin?

Thanks

[MikeChambers]

Originally posted by jeavon
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the new plugin but I have following questions:

1. How can i patch the authoring environment to use the new plugin?
2. How can i make exe's that use the new plugin?

Thanks

the standalone players have not been updated yet.

the streaming issues only affected ActiveX controls in windows.

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com

[final_eternity]

going up

[ecin]

thanx so much for the new player. myself and thousands others thak you for addressing this issue.

one concern though, is there any way to avoid having to restart your computer once the new version is installed? this wasn't the case with the original version of the 6 player, and i think users will find it to be somewhat annoying. does this only happen when going from 6,0,23,0 to 6,0,29,0 or does it also have to happen when going from 5,0,0,0 to 6,0,29,0? i want to be able to inform my users of the situation so that they don't have to install the new version if they don't want to.

thanx again Mike, any input is appreciated.

[bulletfast]

From what I read the only reason it will restart your computer is if the plug-in is currently active. So when IE downloads the activeX control it can't update the plug-in because the old version of the Flash plug-in is currently in use.
Hope that helps,
Dan