Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones wrote: > Has anyone had any experience using the Express Install to update to > Flash 8 Players? I am using TypePad with Flash 8 videos and am very > pleased with the way it is working out. The only problem is that some > of the public are having problems updating to the new Flash player. > There are Windows IE issues, etc.
I'm not sure what error text members of your audience have seen, but if I were guessing, it would be about admin permissions on that computer, that seems to be the most frequent issue these days. But there's a short guide to Windows troubleshooting here: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15511#install_win > I would like to stick with the Flash 8 videos because the quality is so > good and I know that pretty soon the Flash 8 market penetration will be > enough to get the players out there. I think I am just a bit ahead of > the curve right now. Maybe not. ;-) Here's a chronology of some really amazing adoption rates: Aug 31 05: Flash Player 8 released to general public, and immediately sees 4-5 million *completed* installations per day. Dec 15 05: NPD/MediaMetrix discovers 50% of consumers tested could see SWF8 content. Today: The March consumer audit won't be live on the site for awhile yet, but the new On2 codec should be up about 70% general consumer viewability by now, I'd wager. Results of the December consumer audit: http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html > There is some FlashObject code that developers are using to generate an > Express Install that seems to work very well and solves the update > problems. I have no idea in the world what to do with it and I cannot, > quite frankly, make heads or tails of most of links that deal with it. > I want to, somehow, get it into TypePad. > Anyone have any experience with this? Not sure... got link? The Express Install docs on the Adobe site seems to be working pretty smoothly for people on the mailing lists, but I know that lots of people like to customize any standard routine too. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
