"Mac Pros are not supported."
Sounds like Apple describing the future of their computers.
Sadly, I think you are right. The poor old 2009 Mac Pro is rapidly approaching the 500 day mark without an update.
"Mac Pros are not supported."
Sounds like Apple describing the future of their computers.
Finally my CPU is lightly used by Flash. First time in ages (ever since I moved to Mac) I don't hear the fan go WWWWWHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR when I started using Youtube.
Sadly, I think you are right. The poor old 2009 Mac Pro is rapidly approaching the 500 day mark without an update.![]()
Anybody know why Apple doesn't implement this using Open CL (supporting the broad range of compatible GPUs) but this proprietary, limited way instead?
No. You seem to not understand how OpenCL and h.264 hardware acceleration work or what they are for. OpenCL only access some of the graphic API's and shaders of video cards, not all. It doesn't have, as of right now, any access to the video hardware acceleration features that some video cards have. Now, I'm not saying that in the future it might have those, but it takes a long time to get new features into a framework like OpenCL unless you want a very buggy implementation.
On top of that, OpenCL is not just Apple so some stuff will move slower as other companies contribute, etc. For more information go here:
http://www.khronos.org/opencl/
Also, I don't think OpenCL is going to add much of the video hardware acceleration routines. OpenCL is focused on creating a framework that will create programs that will be allowed to use the GPU for math intensive tasks.
is VLC browser-resident?
Useless. This won't run on any of our computers.
Besides though, Flash is dying. It is being replaced with standards of HTML5.
Flash was just a temporary way to do video.
Flash is mostly just used for advertising and glitz on web sites.
Flash is a resource hog, crashes and I'll be glad to see it gone.
Don't blame Adobe for the fact it won't work on your computer. Blame Apple. When using the GPU, Flash isn't as much of a resource hog as it used to be.
This looks like some good news for many of us, but it seems like only the 9400 and above are supported, which leaves out some of us older C2D and CD MBP, iMac users that either have an older nvidia gpu or an ATI based gpu,
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Useless. This won't run on any of our computers.
Besides though, Flash is dying. It is being replaced with standards of HTML5.
Flash was just a temporary way to do video.
Flash is mostly just used for advertising and glitz on web sites.
Flash is a resource hog, crashes and I'll be glad to see it gone.
To make it work in Chrome, close Chrome, open a Terminal and cd to /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/<your chrome version>/ and delete the flash plugin in there that comes with Chrome. Now install the new plugin from the DMG using Adobe's installer.
Go here to check your version: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html . It should say "MAC 10,1,81,3".
Some youtube videos don't play smoothly on a 9400M card, like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw . Can anyone confirm this? I can see a weird stuttering during playback. Happens in all browsers.
HTML5 will soon be used for advertising.. as a replacement for Flash. There was a comparison of HTML5 vs Flash performance when playing video - there wasn't much difference.
Flash can do a lot of things HTML5 cannot. Flash is here to stay!
To make it work in Chrome, close Chrome, open a Terminal and cd to /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/<your chrome version>/ and delete the flash plugin in there that comes with Chrome. Now install the new plugin from the DMG using Adobe's installer.
Go here to check your version: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html . It should say "MAC 10,1,81,3".
Some youtube videos don't play smoothly on a 9400M card, like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw . Can anyone confirm this? I can see a weird stuttering during playback. Happens in all browsers.
HTML5 will soon be used for advertising.. as a replacement for Flash.
This is a fact and its sad some refuse to understand it. Blocking Flash banners is easy but try blocking HTML5 banner and you will fail.
I don't see the problem. At least the HTML5/Canvas banner won't crash my browser or run circles around my CPU(hardware acceleration will not work for advertisements).
I don't see the problem. At least the HTML5/Canvas banner won't crash my browser or run circles around my CPU(hardware acceleration will not work for advertisements).
You obviously don't know anything about the Flash API's, yet you're talking as if you do.
Hardware accretion works in video AND in the vector graphics that you see in things like advertisements..
You obviously don't know anything about the Flash API's, yet you're talking as if you do.
Hardware accretion works in video AND in the vector graphics that you see in things like advertisements..