Hopefully this means I can add full desktop recording as an flv video stream to my OSS eLearning project (www.salasaga.org). :)

Though, if they're truly going royalty free with this, maybe Adobe should consider using something like theora (www.theora.org) for future video streaming...?

Where does Bluestreak fit in with all this? I worked with it a little while back. It's a full Flash player for mobiles (they only had a Series 60 client as I remember), their main selling point being that Flash Lite is too limited whereas they could render anything that could render on a desktop. I think they started on Set top boxes and figured that mobile was the next step for them.

I wrote SWF files using Flash with some extra APIs for native device calls (like SMS and call handling) and it ran them quite impressively. At the time I didn't really understand how they could do that - I'm pretty sure they didn't license anything from Adobe.

Anyway, sounds like this could knock the wind out of their sales (ahem).

So since Adobe's Flash SDK was stuck on version 7 and Opera had to use that for the browser on the Wii, does this mean they (and Nintendo) could actually embed Flash 9 now and have a great platform for viewing videos? Anyone fancy a Wii based media centre?

Nice move, Adobe. Those Gnash guys have had it tough so far, this should help a hell of a lot.

It's only been a few years that they have been saying that they are working on "support for 64-bit platforms as part of our (their) ongoing commitment to cross-platform compatibility". The only reason I still have to use a 32-bit web browser, is for flash.