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Adobe release Flash Player 10.1 with GPU acceleration for HD video
This morning Adobe is launching a beta version of Flash Player 10.1 with support for hardware decoding of H.264 Flash video. In other words, if you have a supported graphics card (PDF link), you should be able to watch high definition and high quality Flash video without killing your CPU.
This comes as particularly good news for people who have picked up small laptops and nettops based on the NVIDIA ION platform. While the graphics processor is powerful enough to decode Blu-Ray video and play many modern video games, the ION chipset uses a low power Intel Atom processor that seems to think that 1080p Flash video would look better as a slideshow than a video.
With Flash Player 10.1 beta installed, even these ION-based machines can handle 1080p Flash video from sites like YouTube, which is good because YouTube is getting ready to roll out a whole heck of a lot more 1080P video.
You can download Flash Player 10.1 beta from Adobe Labs.
NVIDIA loaned me an ASRock ION 330 nettop with NVIDIA ION graphics to test the new Flash Player, and it performed as advertised, easily handling 720p and 1080p HD video playback from Hulu and YouTube. The video at the top of this post shows the ASRock nettop playing video smoothly after installing the latest version of the software. To see what video playback looked like with the older version of Flash Player 10, check out the video after the break.
This comes as particularly good news for people who have picked up small laptops and nettops based on the NVIDIA ION platform. While the graphics processor is powerful enough to decode Blu-Ray video and play many modern video games, the ION chipset uses a low power Intel Atom processor that seems to think that 1080p Flash video would look better as a slideshow than a video.
With Flash Player 10.1 beta installed, even these ION-based machines can handle 1080p Flash video from sites like YouTube, which is good because YouTube is getting ready to roll out a whole heck of a lot more 1080P video.
You can download Flash Player 10.1 beta from Adobe Labs.
NVIDIA loaned me an ASRock ION 330 nettop with NVIDIA ION graphics to test the new Flash Player, and it performed as advertised, easily handling 720p and 1080p HD video playback from Hulu and YouTube. The video at the top of this post shows the ASRock nettop playing video smoothly after installing the latest version of the software. To see what video playback looked like with the older version of Flash Player 10, check out the video after the break.
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Subscribe to commentsKris120890Nov 17th 2009 8:31AM
Your videos don't work.
Brad LinderNov 17th 2009 8:33AM
Try again now. Someone decided to embargo this news until 9am this morning... and then lifted the embargo in the middle of the night leaving some of us a bit unprepared... you know, without naming names.
crankcallerNov 17th 2009 9:43AM
"Linux and Mac OS X hardware-accelerated decoding is not supported in this version."
Great, just great....
I know it's coming at a later date but come on.
HUPextremeNov 17th 2009 11:57AM
hmmmm, made all my playback slightly pixelated. Ah well my quad core will have to do the work for now lol
master811Nov 17th 2009 3:48PM
FYI ATI are also bringing in Flash Video decoding, hopefully sooner rather than later.