It's not just a glimmer on the horizon anymore, the Adobe Media Player prerelease is now available on Labs. A fine way to navigate your favorite video assets and streaming channels with style in a well-done AIR application. As expected, it's hardware-accelerated and down with the H.264-izzle. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to use AMP myself and bog down a bit 'o broadband at the homestead.
Of course, the very first thing I did was try to "Add Video" using a file type that isn't supported and subsequently discover that the Adobe Media Player has no error handling.
It just sits there. Doesn't tell you the process failed, how to fix it, what file types are acceptable, nothing.
Gotta love it. :)
That should be ironed out during the prerelease, of course (knocking wood). But yes, the lack of error handling is more than a bit annoying in the current build. ;-)
What about the new version of media player?
What about it? Not sure what you're asking.
It's live and free, so go grab a copy. ;-)