Yes! that's right Flash Player 9 will now supports H.264 for video playback. The latest update to Flash player 9 which will be available on Adobe Labs will include support for H.264 and AAC in the form or .flv, .mp4 and .mov files. This will allow flash to continue to be the de facto standard of video players.

Here are a few other enhancements that were added to the new update:

Improved performance
• Multi-core support; full screen mode with hardware scaling; multi-threaded video decoding
Flash Player Cache
• Cross-domain Flex Framework caching; reduced application size and faster download times
Works better with Ajax
• Improved JavaScript integration; improved browser integration
Reaching parity on Linux
• Full screen mode now for Linux Flash Player

Posted by Richard Galvan at 01:26 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

I have had many people ask me for older Flash players to test against. It seems that its not easy to find the archive on the Adobe we page. So here it is:

Flash Player archives

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=2

You will find Flash players from the current player all the way back to Flash Player 2.

Have fun testing.

Posted by Richard Galvan at 04:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

In case you have not heard we released an update to Flash Player 9 yesterday afternoon. Flash Player 9.0.45.0 is now available and fixes a few bugs that could affect content created with Flash CS3 Professional.Emmy Huang, Group Product Manager for the Flash Player team, has a blog post that goes over the update in detail. Make sure you check out her post.

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