flash player

I recently tried to view a youtube video. When I did it led me to a download for a .tar.gz file. I'm still new to linux so I was wondering if anyone could advise me on what to do, or if it's even possible to view youtube videos on the jornada 720

PS told me that flash player is compiled for intel chips... so it won't work for the j720... but there is hope! two ways actually... gnash is a open source flash player... i haven't tried it... but looks promising... also you can just download the youtube video (file2hd.com) and play it in a media player... i know vlc works (kinda, i have a post on my messing with it)... and if you have the codecs, mplayer can play it...

I compiled gnash and a few other things to get flash working in konqueror and firefox on my debian install on my jornada 728 and it's quite slow. Youtube videos lag a lot (5-10fps) and sound is crappy

Edited by HellDragon 2008-04-13 3:32 AM

yeah probably as expected.... um hopefully this will be "worked out" if/when we get those flashboards and/or cpu upgrade.