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Adobe Enables Mac Hardware-Accelerated Decoding in Updated Flash Player 10.1
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How am I blaming Apple, someone asked a question and I answered it. I didn't call Apple lazy or anything like that.
I blame Apple on not allowing older GPUs to hardware accelerate Flash. There is no reason that an 8600m GT can't do the job.
You should have though, because it is Apple being lazy here :
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2010/tn2267.html
hmmm bit useless really...surely the older macs require the boost to flash more than the newest ones? :S i use html 5 on youtube but flash is still shocking with most uses on my imac intel core 2 duo with the ati hd2600 pro.
im still with apple dropping flash. and yes i have read that its apples limited api's but if adobe weren't only just getting round to this it wouldnt still be a problem.
im still with apple dropping flash. and yes i have read that its apples limited api's but if adobe weren't only just getting round to this it wouldnt still be a problem.
Apple released the API in April of 2010. Yes, barely 4 months ago. Unless they are capable of time travel, Adobe's staff started getting around to it as soon as it was possible.
Nope. The API Apple made, which Flash is using, doesn't support any other GPU's. No hardware accelerated decoding for us. Not only absent for Flash, but also for normal videos encoded with H.264.
Not that I need it, though. My 2008 Mac Pro has never had any problems playing Flash content. The CPU usage meter in Activity Monitor usually registers 1 or 2 percent, which is nothing.
Every time I try to update this in Google Chrome, I get an error on the website "Your Google Chrome browser already includes the latest Adobe® Flash® Player built-in."
Any way to update it manually? It isn't the latest version (The website says I have MAC 10,1,53,64).
Any way to update it manually? It isn't the latest version (The website says I have MAC 10,1,53,64).
KnightWRX:
so adobe has had no ability to use hardware acceleration till 4 months ago?
(sorry if im being nieve, but from what i know flash has never been properly looked after on the mac using the hardware or software, and i mean that as in from the beginning of mac!)
so adobe has had no ability to use hardware acceleration till 4 months ago?
(sorry if im being nieve, but from what i know flash has never been properly looked after on the mac using the hardware or software, and i mean that as in from the beginning of mac!)
That list is not all-inclusive - the hardware-accelerated Flash beta has been working on my MacBook Air (2nd gen, 1.86GHz processor w/ NVidia 9400M) just fine. Yes, I did see the annoying white square (which I assume will now be going away, hopefully...).
It certainly makes Flash better that it was, but don't set your expectations too high - it's still Flash, it's still more of a resource hog than many other audio/video formats. Just less so than before.
It certainly makes Flash better that it was, but don't set your expectations too high - it's still Flash, it's still more of a resource hog than many other audio/video formats. Just less so than before.
Does it support my 2009 27" i7 iMac? I thought it does, but I watched a trailer 1080p without it and got 100% CPU usage, and then I watched after installing it and it was pretty much the same!
That list is not all-inclusive - the hardware-accelerated Flash beta has been working on my MacBook Air (2nd gen, 1.86GHz processor w/ NVidia 9400M) just fine. Yes, I did see the annoying white square (which I assume will now be going away, hopefully...).
It certainly makes Flash better that it was, but don't set your expectations too high - it's still Flash, it's still more of a resource hog than many other audio/video formats. Just less so than before.
Yeah this is basically just a more stable version of Gala, nothing more. I kinda miss that white box though, it was like a Companion Cube. (hopefully someone gets that one
)Does that mean no support for the October Aluminium Macbooks? It has the 9400M as well.
Works on my October AluMacbook just fine. Better than Gala.
Flash is hw accelerated in almost every video card in windows because Microsoft provided the necessary APIs long ago. Apple just got around to it very recently. If they dedicated the resources, they could have the acceleration working on the 8600M GT in my Pro laptop. It's not like they can't afford to hire some people to do it... they made how much last quarter?
If you have problem with this, direct your complaint to sjobs at some fruit company.com. sjobs runs the only company that can do anything about this issue.
Yeah this is basically just a more stable version of Gala, nothing more. I kinda miss that white box though, it was like a Companion Cube. (hopefully someone gets that one
although i have not got too close to the white box. i get it! thought i'd put you out of your misery first.
though a companion sphere is more cuddly!
from such wikiing and googling, it seems that hardware acceleration even for windows is a relatively new feature. i failed to find this conclusively however 10.1 most certainly was the first release of flash that supported h.264 hardware acceleration. and h.264 has been out for a little more than a while now!
Unibody MacBook?
The list includes MacBooks shipped after January 21st, 2009 and MacBook Pros shipped after October 14th, 2008, but there is no mention of the unibody aluminum MacBook, despite it being remarkably similar to some of the MacBook Pros that are included. (I mean, it is a MacBook Pro now.)
However, the article this summary links to mentions the GeForce 9400M as a supported card, and that's exactly what the aluminum MacBook has--so I'm guessing (and hoping) it is supported.
The list includes MacBooks shipped after January 21st, 2009 and MacBook Pros shipped after October 14th, 2008, but there is no mention of the unibody aluminum MacBook, despite it being remarkably similar to some of the MacBook Pros that are included. (I mean, it is a MacBook Pro now.)
However, the article this summary links to mentions the GeForce 9400M as a supported card, and that's exactly what the aluminum MacBook has--so I'm guessing (and hoping) it is supported.
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March 29, 2010/April 22, 2010 : Apple Opens Door to Hardware-Accelerated Decoding of H.264 Video in Flash
April 28, 2010 : Flash 10.1 updated with hardware acceleration support, codenamed "Gala"
