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GS - 01 Oct 2008 04:07 GMT

Im using Win CE 5.0 under MIPS II CPU

1. How to add support for "adobe flash" in IE on Win CE 5.0 ?
2. How about performance when visiting sites like Youtube ?
3. Any suggestions for third party solutions ?
4. How to add Silverlight support to IE on Win CE 5.0 ?

Kindly share your experience/ideas regarding this..

Thank you,
Siddarth

> siddarth.gopal@icnexus.com.tw

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Luca Calligaris - 01 Oct 2008 06:15 GMT

About flash player, this link could be interesting:
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6928932607.html?kc=WFDEMNL050808

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Siddarth - 03 Oct 2008 06:34 GMT

> About flash player, this link could be interesting:
> http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6928932607.html?kc=WFDEMNL050808

Thanks for your input. I will go through that link

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Valter Minute - 01 Oct 2008 09:36 GMT

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> Kindly share your experience/ideas regarding this..

Silverlight support for Windows Mobile (that may mean windows mobile
_only_ and not "generic" CE) has been shown on some developer
conferences but, AFAIK, it's still not available for developers, even
in beta.
As Luca pointed out also Abobe seems to plan an "open" release of
Flash and flash-related tools but, AFAIK, no software has been
released and there are no betas or availability roadmaps about window
CE.
There was a "flash for embedded devices" implementation but I don't
know if it's supported on CE and if it will be dropped when the open
release of flash will be available.
There was a flash viewer for PocketPCs, but it was ARM-only and I
don't know if you can install it on a "generic" CE device or it has
windows mobile/pocket PC specific dependencies.
Right now you can find documentation about file formats, but building
your own viewer isn't an easy task.

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Siddarth - 03 Oct 2008 06:36 GMT

>> Im using Win CE 5.0 under MIPS II CPU
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> Right now you can find documentation about file formats, but building
> your own viewer isn't an easy task.

Mr. Valter,

Thanks for detailing this information. The thing is, we just need to get
the browser going with flash support and silverlight. We are not looking
for building our own viewer.

This is a customer request so we are looking for 3rd party or some other
solution.

Regards,
Siddarth

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Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] - 01 Oct 2008 16:50 GMT

1. You can get some sort of Flash support for Windows CE from BSquare. You
have to buy it, of course. I don't know if it runs inside IE on Windows CE
or only stand-alone either.

How about telling us, instead of asking us to comment on a semi-random list
of technologies, *what* you're trying to do and letting us suggest a line of
investigation?

Paul T.

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Siddarth - 03 Oct 2008 06:40 GMT

> 1. You can get some sort of Flash support for Windows CE from BSquare. You
> have to buy it, of course. I don't know if it runs inside IE on Windows CE
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>>> siddarth.gopal@icnexus.com.tw

Mr. Paul,

We have customer request where in the browser should support all
scripts, flash support, silverlight etc., we are looking at any
available solution or developing on our own with some resources.

The product is going to be a child PC, with all in one Browser,
Media player as capable as PC version of VLC(several codecs),

We also considered OPERA browser which can run on MIPS-II & Win CE 5.0
but it ate our processor resource and slowed down our system.

We will try to see if bsquare can help.

I was wondering what people do with products using Win CE and needing
flash support on the browser.

regards,
Siddarth

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Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] - 06 Oct 2008 18:17 GMT

Tell the customer that this is impractical. The browser is not running on a
full-blown PC; it's running on some little device with MB, not GB, of RAM
and GB, not hundreds of GB of storage. Expecting it to do absolutely
everything that a PC with a 3GB operating system can do, but in 1/100th the
space is silly. For what you describe, use Windows XP embedded (I mean,
Windows Embedded Standard), a more-resourceful piece of hardware, etc. What
the customer is asking for *is* a PC, not an embedded device of the type
you're talking about.

Flash support in the browser = BSquare/Adobe or nothing, as far as I've seen
(as I said, I don't know if their flash support runs inside the IE browser
or stand-alone or both). It's always been that way; there's never been a
free plug-in for flash for Windows CE.

Paul T.

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> regards,
> Siddarth

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