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Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.2 With 'Stage Video' Hardware Acceleration
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Sssssssssh! You can't tell the truth here. It is forbidden in the land of the sainted jobs. He can do no wrong.
yep. support is coming soon, but not "free'
tried the examples listed here
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/stagevideo.html
youtube - still hitting 30% CPU usage*
big buck bunny - improper plugin check, looking for an explicit version
brightcove - just a blog post about peformance
vimeo - coming soon
underwhelmed so far
running a corei7 2.8Ghz with 16GB of RAM and 512MB of VRAM
partially correct, apple needed to provide access to an api for gpu acceleration. that's not the only way to decrease cpu usage and not the only way adobe has achieved power/cpu reduction.
Am I reading this right that Adobe _isn't_ using Apple's video acceleration API this time? Have they rolled a GPU acceleration implementation of their own?
I know it depends on what web circles you run in, but for me I'm reminded of the lack of Flash on my iPad less and less often. There's been tremendous progress towards HTML5 in my daily use.
I don't think it will be long before Flash only sites are a rare, irritating curiosity, like IE-only sites are now.
I don't think it will be long before Flash only sites are a rare, irritating curiosity, like IE-only sites are now.
It's working perfectly on my ZX81, although it's a tad slow without the 16K ram pack plugged in.
Better than repeating all the worn-out arguments against Flash. It's well known it sucks. I'm glad my comment encouraged you to respond.
Finally! no more fan noise
I've got a mid 2009 MBP with the Nvidia 9600Gt and after installing the update went top play some Top Gear / 1080p full screen on Youtube just to test it out. After watching the show for a while it dawned on my that my laptop was unusually quiet and I realized that I wasn't hearing the computer fans that normally come on. I had no idea that this release included new features to put more of the decoding on the GPU so it was a pleasant surprise. Of course you probably need an approved graphics card so I'm not sure how it will help the common masses of poor bastards with Intel integrated video chips on their white macbooks.
I've got a mid 2009 MBP with the Nvidia 9600Gt and after installing the update went top play some Top Gear / 1080p full screen on Youtube just to test it out. After watching the show for a while it dawned on my that my laptop was unusually quiet and I realized that I wasn't hearing the computer fans that normally come on. I had no idea that this release included new features to put more of the decoding on the GPU so it was a pleasant surprise. Of course you probably need an approved graphics card so I'm not sure how it will help the common masses of poor bastards with Intel integrated video chips on their white macbooks.
Just to let the people know who are complaining about not being able to see flash content on their iPad. There is an app that let's you use a different web browser for the iPad which can display flash. It's pretty neat.
I also love the incognito mode and the fact that you can set it to let the web site know that you are either an iPad or a Desktop browser. So handy...
I also love the incognito mode and the fact that you can set it to let the web site know that you are either an iPad or a Desktop browser. So handy...
Awesome stuff!
And it is only the beginning... Expect loads more on this front over coming months!
And it is only the beginning... Expect loads more on this front over coming months!
Then you should start looking elsewhere. Apple isn't going to allow any third party vendor to load any plugin into mobile safari that makes the device crash more, kills the battery, and in general runs bad. I don't blame them one bit.
Is there a list anywhere of what hardware's supported? I'm on a MBP (Core2Duo) early 2008 with a GeForce 8600M GT. Is this up to the Herculean task of playing a YouTube video of a cat falling off a swing, or is that now too much for my £2,000 machine?
You will still have the beachballs if you have an ATI-card in your Mac Pro..
It is a shame that Apple does not provide HW acceleration support for ATI-cards:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2010/tn2267.html
That is the API that Flash relies on.
To call the "Mac Pro" a High-end machine without providing the proper software support for it is a shame.
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Is there a list anywhere of what hardware's supported? I'm on a MBP (Core2Duo) early 2008 with a GeForce 8600M GT. Is this up to the Herculean task of playing a YouTube video of a cat falling off a swing, or is that now too much for my £2,000 machine?
You should be able to find the list here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/
And from my understanding of that list the answer is "No, your hardware is not supported". But I could be wrong.
