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Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.2 With 'Stage Video' Hardware Acceleration

bearcatrp said:
How about allowing this on the iPad, with a switch to turn it off on our own. Getting tired of going to web sites that need this to see certain things. Sure it will drain the battery more, but let me decide if I want it. With more tablets coming out, if apple cannot let users decide for themselves (I think we are big enough to do this), then my next tablet sure as he'll won't be an iPad!
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I would never buy a table based on if it supports Flash or not. Its not that important.
 
About 50 or so posts in a thread about flash and nobody has broken a bottle to stab somebody with a differing opinion. Perhaps there is hope for us after all.
 
I have to say I do see an improvement on my MacBook Air (still a little choppy but never topped 18% CPU playing a 1080p HD vid from YouTube).
Click to Flash is a GREAT plugin for Safari.
 
This news should be interesting, to see those who would criticize the video playback, even if magically was able to use no computer power for ultra-high definition video, just because it’s Adobe and Steve doesn’t like them because it cuts into his profits.
 
How do I update flash on my Mac? In fact, how do I even know what version of Flash I've got at present?!
 
fblack said:
All these attempts by Adobe lately to lower cpu usage and power consumption. I guess Apple wasn't too far off with its criticisms...
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These attempts were part of their road map way before Steve criticized adobe, since they were trying to make it more efficient for the future of smart phone. I'm normally go to regular computer sites, so it could sometimes be frustrating coming here where people get the feeling that the whole world, the entire world revolves around Apple.
 
This also has dropped PowerPC support. I hope to see it back for the G4 and G5 based on this:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/838/cpsid_83808.html

"The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 release will be the last version to support Macintosh PowerPC-based G3 computers. Adobe will be discontinuing support of PowerPC-based G3 computers and will no longer provide security updates after the Flash Player 10.1 release. Support is being discontinued because of performance enhancements that cannot be supported on the older PowerPC architecture."
 
I wondered why chrome wanted to update yesterday. All I can say is it's a HUGE improvement. I can watch 1080P youtube on my external 1680x1050 and MBP 5,1 9600mGT.
 
Does this support hardware acceleration on the Radeon 4850? I know past versions of Flash haven't supported it, even though with Windows it has hardware acceleration.
 
Wonder how many here actually think this update is bad versus how many people are towing the Apple line that was fed to them.

Stubhub is much, much more navigable now. Then again, it always was on a PC.
 
I was always getting random video freezing (audio would still play normally). It wasn't buffering issues, because it would happen on fully buffered video's.

I believe that issues is now gone on my early 2008 mbp.
 
zoomy942 said:
Looks like this is 32bit only. pass.
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Ditto. When I MUST use flash, I'll stick with Chrome. It did update to the latest version.
Any beta testers of the 64bit version catch wind of when these improvements will make their way into that release?
 
Is the '34 times better' for PC too? Because my old 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo Packard Bell used to spin up to about 8% watching a 1080p flash video..

And about 15% on the same 1080p video running on HTML5.
 
If you can improve something 38x ... It was pretty dam shittty to begin with.
 
fblack said:
All these attempts by Adobe lately to lower cpu usage and power consumption. I guess Apple wasn't too far off with its criticisms...
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Apple did (pretty much) noting but giving a loud voice to an old well known problem. I mean the Flash plugin' problems were there well before all the iOS/Flash vs. HTML5 debate...
 
Benjy91 said:
Is the '34 times better' for PC too? Because my old 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo Packard Bell used to spin up to about 8% watching a 1080p flash video..

And about 15% on the same 1080p video running on HTML5.
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depends on the graphics chip. my lenovo core i5 rarely breaks single digit CPU when watching flash videos
 
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Stella said:
fblack said:
All these attempts by Adobe lately to lower cpu usage and power consumption. I guess Apple wasn't too far off with its criticisms...
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Apple had to provide the API to enable Adobe to do this ( Hardware Acceleration )... which they [apple] did last year and Adobe was very quick to make the necessary changes.
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Just for video acceleration. What about the other areas where Flash is horrible?
 
Stella said:
Apple had to provide the API to enable Adobe to do this ( Hardware Acceleration )... which they [apple] did last year and Adobe was very quick to make the necessary changes.
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Rather, Apple had to provide an API that was so easy enough to use that Adobe could include it in Flash with minimal effort.
Core Video already allowed third-party developers to include hardware acceleration into their apps for years already, it was just that the way Flashplayer was programmed that accessing Core Video would have required some serious re-coding. So, Apple was nice enough and provided a special API directly for Adobe (though other developers naturally could also use it).
There have been third-party apps with hardware acceleration for years on the Mac.
 
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