CyanogenMod / Kangs - Poor Flash Support? - Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Anyone know what it is about CyanogenMod (and thus kangs) that makes flash so wonky? I use FLASH VIDEO BROWSER to watch things like Hulu.... Works amazingly well (sorta).
It does not work on CM. It does on other ROM's (not kangs though). I emailed the developer and he commented that every CM user (not sure if CM7 has the problem) has issues and that it just does not seem to handle flash well.
Clearly there is an issue there with how Flash is handled. Anyone smart enough to try and help find what the problem is, or can offer suggestions on how to help fix it?
Before approaching CyanogenMod and sounding like a whiner, it would be nice to give some helpful feedback.
Aside from that.... also upsetting that ROMs built from source can not view Market movies, but other ROMs can. Any time my wife want to hook our Tab up to the TV I have to switch from AOKP to Task... It is not too hard to go back and forth, but I can't see the logic by Google here.

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yep i kinda felt the same

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See, I don't really want to get into details but, Adobe had mentioned that "Flash is dying" it's on the news, Most of the developers have given up on flash content, CM too as far as I've heard, because Java Script's can handle flash content properly, Like the Youtube app doesn't require you to have Flash to work. ICS production has also barred the use of Flash "Consumes too much battery" as the statement went, But regardless I would say to wait a few weeks or such, Hulu might shift to HTML5 which would rectify this issue, that and every other commonly visited site is about to swap content over to HTML5 as it can render/use/display flash content.
S.Jobs apparently saw this coming which is also why none of the iDevices till this day support flash. That and flash just degrades the performance of the PC, Want a good example? Look at Mozilla in task manager when viewing a Youtube video, 300k~500k memory usage. Grand.
Edit: Added Chrome too
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Sum all of this together along with the 101 useless junk ads that appear and I won't be surprised as to why CM7 (Which is built from scratch) has a hard time with this.

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Yeah, understand that HTML5 is ultimately the direction, but right now there are far too many sites that need flash, and the only custom roms that seem to have a glitch are CM9 and the kangs it spawns.
I cant imagine going a long period where someone on CM cannot utilize flash/sites where someone on a stock rom can... just seems like if you are on the best rom, you should have the best experience.
def not articulating this well.

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s15274n said:
Yeah, understand that HTML5 is ultimately the direction, but right now there are far too many sites that need flash, and the only custom roms that seem to have a glitch are CM9 and the kangs it spawns.
I cant imagine going a long period where someone on CM cannot utilize flash/sites where someone on a stock rom can... just seems like if you are on the best rom, you should have the best experience.
def not articulating this well.
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Ah it's all good, afaik probably CM has already seen the downside to this when building it from scratch which is why they tried their best to make this app reliant? I don't know how to explain it in simpler terms but, Instead of browser depending on the system to run flash content via Flash Player, it's more like the Youtube app? Where the app itself is able to handle the processing without much dependency on other apps.
On another note, Flash content is copyrighted including their drivers and CM is an open source that doesn't want to have anything to do with copyrighted stuff (Would explain why they don't even include the gapps into the pre installation) I guess they tried to make sure the system was able to handle what was required of the user without depending on copyrighted apps, probably to avoid lawsuits, IDK, it's probably their own personal reasons too.

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^ the cease and desist order from google to cyanogen = why we have gapps now. A clever work around to their threat. Not sure why all of the kangs also use gapps, I guess since they are using cm they feel they need to.
O well, guess there is no good answer... shame that CyanogenMod currently has an issue with Flash. Makes it impossible for me to watch hulu.

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Flash isn't hardware accelerated in the cm9/AOSP builds and the video driver in general has many issues. I think we'll have to wait for an official release or at least a leaked ICS ROM for the 10.1 to get proper video drivers.

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s15274n said:
^ the cease and desist order from google to cyanogen = why we have gapps now. A clever work around to their threat. Not sure why all of the kangs also use gapps, I guess since they are using cm they feel they need to.
O well, guess there is no good answer... shame that CyanogenMod currently has an issue with Flash. Makes it impossible for me to watch hulu.
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Because android in general is highly dependent on Google for almost everything, like a little baby craving for mommy's bossom as much as they want to rid the use of Gapps ,the whole purpose of android was bound around google related apps they are allowed to make use of it however as Gapps are open sourced like android itself, If flash was bought over by Google rather than Adobe, then probably CM scene wouldn't have a hard time with it I guess. I tend to forget at times that Flash and GApps are under different major companies