Adobe Announces H.264 Support in Flash

The updated support will allow Flash Player to take advantage of hardware acceleration provided in computer video cards and is also optimized for Dual-Core processors.
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Does this mean I'll be able to watch youtube videos without the fans on my macbook going berserk? Flash doesn't seem very optimized for os x...
 
DoFoT9 said:
do u have any links for this format?? i cant seem to find any. im interested
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When I said "have you heard of it" I meant it in the rhetorical sense...in other words, it doesn't exist.

Sorensen software products still exist, however. Here's Squeeze:

www.sorensonmedia.com

But if you look, even though Squeeze lots of different things, they're now mostly focused on promoting the fact that it does Flash and H.264.
 
I guess this means on my old Dual 533Mhz with a new Radeon 9800 pro that flash would perform better, at least flash video, being better optimized for dual-core and graphics cards etc.
 
etjazz said:
Does this mean I'll be able to watch youtube videos without the fans on my macbook going berserk? Flash doesn't seem very optimized for os x...
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This is exactly what this means. Instead of using 200% of your CPU, it will use 100% of your GPU and very little of your CPU.
 
iBunny said:
This is exactly what this means. Instead of using 200% of your CPU, it will use 100% of your GPU and very little of your CPU.
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Actually the fans should still go crazy. As the GPU's in the notebooks almost pull as much power as the CPU does.
 
This should be interesting. It's about time Flash used a decent codec for video.

On the other hand, Adobe appears to be eating some of Apple's lunch now. This is certainly not a push from Apple. Think about this... If you're a web developer, why would you even consider QuickTime now as a container when you can just put H.264 video in a Flash. Getting people to upgrade to the newest Flash is a lot easier than getting people to install QuickTime on their machines. That leaves little incentive for developers to use QuickTime.
 
Why would youtube continue to use a Flash based player at all if all the content will soon be available in H.264?

Personally, I hate all these proprietary players websites use. You get one experience if you go to your local news channel's web site, another if you go to CNN, yet another if you go to TLC, another if you go to YouTube.

In my experience YouTube's player works poorly. I'm not sure why there are any other buttons or controls available besides play and pause, since those are the only ones that reliably work.
 
Small White Car said:
When I said "have you heard of it" I meant it in the rhetorical sense...in other words, it doesn't exist.

Sorensen software products still exist, however. Here's Squeeze:

www.sorensonmedia.com

But if you look, even though Squeeze lots of different things, they're now mostly focused on promoting the fact that it does Flash and H.264.
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aawww ya mean bugger, i thought it actually was. stupid blonde nature to trust people.
 
irun5k said:
In my experience YouTube's player works poorly. I'm not sure why there are any other buttons or controls available besides play and pause, since those are the only ones that reliably work.
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Exactly. The controls and fuctionality are awful. It drives me nuts when I'm trying to skip to a certain point in a video and can't. Say a clip is 40 seconds long, I can't place the slider anywhere between start and finish, it just jumps back to where it was.

Really irritates me.
 
question re adobe flash and h264 codec.

bear with me:

i create podcast files for various clients ... i render them as mp4's (or m4v's) so they can be distributed through itunes. my clients also want a file that their windows users can play back instantly, without downloading. i've been converting my .mp4's to .wmv .... but i was hoping to give them flash files.

some clients put the files up on their own websites, some clients ask me to host their files on my website (created through iweb, hosted on .mac)

a few questions, and thanks in advance for your patience:

i) what does this adobe flash/h264 announcement mean to my scenario? will any file rendered or converted with an h264 codec be playable as a flash file ?

ii) imac will not support any files other than quicktime --- does this announcement mean i'll soon be able to post up .swf files on my iweb site?
if so, will windows users be able to play/stream them back real time with the flash player they have embedded ?

iii) a related question: if iweb won't support a flash file, is it true that if i reconstruct my web page with dreamweaver, that that app WILL allow me to utilize flash files ?

thanks profusely for trying to clear this up for me.
 
Oh goodie! Now I can surf even slower! Here's to hoping that Flash performance on mac will one day out beat a Pentium 2 Win 95 machine.:rolleyes:
 
sknifton said:
ii) imac will not support any files other than quicktime
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Get VLC Player. Also, get the Flip4Mac plugin for QuickTime so you can play .wmv files with it.

Pretty shocking that Windows Media Player doesn't support .mp4 - MS really need a kick up the arse and get supporting this increasingly popular video format.
 
adobe needs to get off there arse and fix the performance issues in flash player for Mac.

when you compare flash player on Mac PPC or intel vs a much older and much slower windows PC, the PC version makes the Mac version seem as if its flash player is running in emulation.

this addon is nice, but adobe could be working on optimizing flash player for PPC and intel Macs allot more.

flash player for Mac is a huge system resource hog on Mac when compaired to the windows PC version.

any one can do this test and see the big difference in performance between the Mac version vs the windows PC version.

i do hope they work on getting this resolved some time, and not keep pushing it off like they don't care.

i will stop complaining about performance issues with flash player on Mac when my G4 system can play flash player content at the same speed as the same spec windows PC can.
 
jhero said:
It is now available at labs.adobe.com
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Flash seems snappier in Safari :p

Kilamite said:
Get VLC Player. Also, get the Flip4Mac plugin for QuickTime so you can play .wmv files with it.
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Don't forget Perian.

madmax_2069 said:
adobe needs to get off there arse and fix the performance issues in flash player for Mac.

i will stop complaining about performance issues with flash player on Mac when my G4 system can play flash player content at the same speed as the same spec windows PC can.
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Somehow I reckon they'll be focusing more time and effort on the Intel architecture, and less on the PPC.
 
samh004 said:
Somehow I reckon they'll be focusing more time and effort on the Intel architecture, and less on the PPC.
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That would not be wise since most Mac users are still on PPC Macs and will be for at least the next 5 years, especially the G4s and G5s.
 
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