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Flash Player 10.1 to support smartphones, NVIDIA powered netbooks... next year
But that's about toe change. Kind of. Adobe has announced that Flash 10.1 will support GPU acceleration for NVIDIA graphics, which means that if you've got a computer with NVIDIA GeForce, ION, or Tegra graphics in it, you should be able to watch high definition Flash video in fullscreen mode even if you have a slow processor like an Intel Atom or ARM-based chip.
What's more, Adobe is going to bring Flash 10.1 to Smartphones, ending the separate but unequal era of Flash Lite. Flash 10.1 will be available for Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Google Android, Palm WebOS, and Symbian phones. The iPhone's not on that list because Adobe still hasn't worked out an arrangement with Apple to add support for Flash 10.1 to the iPhone's Safari web browser, but that could still happen.
Flash 10.1 is due to hit the streets in the first half of 2010. But there should be beta versions available before the end of 2009.
You can check out videos of Flash Player 10.1 on the Palm Pre and Toshiba TG01 at Adobe Labs.
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Subscribe to commentshazardOct 5th 2009 8:41AM
Flash has had hardware-accelerated fullscreen playback since version 9 - not that it's made much difference ;) Video performance in Flash is a disgrace and any content providers with a real interest in quality will offer up standised streams and allow you to use your choice of player.
GOct 5th 2009 8:45AM
Ewww! Look at that left thumb - it's either broken, double-jointed or a Photoshopped toe.
ZeroK2Oct 5th 2009 8:56AM
Flash is not a video codec!!!!!! it is a framework for a whole bunch of capability and this is the reason why it is a CPU hog.
The video element in the latest version of flash now uses H.264 and all they are doing is isolating & providing an access path to that element so it can be decoded by dedicated video logic blocks on GPU's well Nvidia as they are ones doing the development and paying for it most likely.
Flash (not video) performance on web sites will still probably suck in general.
Flash9 did not have GPU acceleration it was poorly worded it should have said it has GPU assisted compositing and scaling not decoding.
hazardOct 6th 2009 7:31AM
Flash got hardware scaling support around Dec 2007 and then [unofficially] h.264 decode around Mar 2008. Adobe have always promised a lot with video performance but never really delivered.
Nonetheless, this next revision of Flash looks to be very interesting indeed.
ToddOct 5th 2009 11:27AM
Won't save Adobe from the HTML5 video tag ( worse if Google open sources On2 codex ).
"A day late and a dollar short" as they say
KhidrOct 5th 2009 11:58AM
Strange you didn't mention WebOS support, despite it being what they're demoing flash on? It's definitely supported, which should be a great addition for Palm's web standards heavy OS.
Brad LinderOct 5th 2009 12:01PM
Just slipped my mind while I was writing that sentence. I've updated the post to reflect it.
rendezvous65Oct 6th 2009 3:01AM
This might be the first version of Flash to support 64 bit Snow Leopard and 64 bit Windows.
AlexNov 18th 2009 1:52PM
a simple listing of flash player features
http://askmeflash.com/article/13/flash-player-10-1-released-whats-new