Adobe Flash

[purevil24]

Probably an old topic but....any word on when the newest flash will be available for boxee box? The main reason we purchased boxee was for my wife's MTV shows and as of today she can no longer watch them, it asks for an update. Fox is the same way. Is there anything I can do to stream these shows through a repository?

[defenderbob]

Play on.TV - dunno if it can do fx, but pretty sure MTV is on there

[tenz]

Same thing happened to me this morning on The Daily Show.

I have always been pretty understanding with some of the limitations boxee has. But when it comes to my favorite show, it makes it tough.

Im not a sofware engineer or anything, but would it be so difficult to package an updated flash player in the boxee firmware? Its only a matter of time that all sites update their flash player, and boxee has to keep up.

[a_team]

This was posted on February 7th from Marcel and Yuvalt. Looks like we need to ride this one out until everyone switches to HTML 5.

Just keeping you posted on the flash ...

Unfortunately due to the technical differences between Flash on a computer and Flash on a set top box, currently we do not have a quick way to upgrade Flash. Adobe does not support Flash 10.3 (the latest version) on connected devices like the Boxee Box. We are waiting to get a version and commence work - no timeline for that yet.

As soon as we have one, I will make it known.

Thanks for your patience.

Boxee does not develop Flash. Intel is the licensee (and actually working with other 3rd party on porting Flash to their platforms and certifying it). The only thing we are doing is push Intel for updates and bug fixes. At this point, due to the situation with Adobe Flash for TV, there is no clear roadmap for updating to a newer version. This is why you see this "no comment". We don't have good news and we don't have bad news. I would love to have newer version of Flash as much as you guys would, but it is completely out of our hands. If there is any update we will let you know. At this point it's clear that Flash for video is dying and that Internet videos will be based on HTML 5 (either standard or other, more secure means where DRM is required). We are in a transition period, that's why it's so frustrating.

[iRoNBiLL]

I think it's safe to say since Intel fired their home multimedia developers and nixed the program, we may never see flash updates for Boxee anymore. It's too many complications for them to resolve it seems and squashing their division for set top boxes didn't help... in fact, it may be the very thing that prevents us from getting anymore flash updates, rendering the Boxee Box useless!

I hate to say it but I'm probably not too far off in assuming this will be the case, hence why there is no ETA on a flash update... it's been months since we've seen one, not just updates to 11!

iRoNBiLL

[ninjustin]

I can't wait until Flash is dead personally. It's not Boxee's fault that these stations don't support an older version of flash.

Could Boxee go through and remove tv shows that no longer function because of the Flash Version issue? It is annoying to sort through and to be let down when I can't watch a show.

[rthakar]

No hulu, No Amazon Prime. The daily show was one of the only reasons I decided to stay with boxee box. Now that too is gone.

[magnus33]

Hard to blame this one on boxee since its basically out of their hands.

[bp13]

"they" are forcing users to get same content elsewhere.

I would just personally get it on the "black market".

[Rustycar]

Unfortunately HTML5 has some issues with DRM video & content authors who demand it so Flash is going to be around for a good while yet particularly on some sites backed by big media companies.

Boxee's hands are tied so it's understandable they cant do a whole lot, I also agree with iRoNBiLL since Intel canned the division I cant image there is any serious backing left at Intel so Adobe is just not that bothered after also stating they are no longer pursing embedded Flash.

Maybe Adobe can supply some tweak that tells Boxee Flash to ignore the updated version request, Adobe must have something like that internally.