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New Flash Player with H.264 GPU Decoding for Mac

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Thibault Imbert just blogged about the release of Flash Player 10.1.82.76 which includes support for H.264 GPU Decoding on the Mac.

You should notice now a nice difference when playing H.264 content on your Mac in terms of CPU usage. We rarely enable new features in security releases but we really wanted to enable such a cool feature. For more details about it, Tinic already posted about this.

Some of you may remember talk of a Flash Player “Gala” that was put out as a beta right before Flash Player 10.1 was released. The GPU decoding didn’t make it into the 10.1 release so we had to wait for a security release to add it. That security release is here and it should make quite a bit of difference for Mac users who are playing H.264 video through the Flash Player.

Flash is as open as HTML5

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How’s that for a controversial title? But… It’s true… Hear me out!
First of all let me say that I have absolutely nothing against HTML5! Innovation and competition is always good and keeps everyone on their toes.
One of the first blog posts I read this morning was one on AppleInsider. An Apple spokeswoman claimed that Adobe’s [...]

Under The Hood with Adobe: Hardware Video Decoding in Flash Player 10.1

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In this episode, Tinic Uro from the Adobe Flash Player engineering team talks about the advances in the use of the GPU for hardware decoding of H.264 video in Flash Player 10.1.

You can learn more about Flash Player 10.1 and download the beta at Adobe Labs. Let us know what you think.