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Flash for Mac OS X now supports hardware acceleration of HD H.264 video content
The hardware acceleration should work with all Mac computers that sport a recent NVIDIA graphics card (9400M, 320M and 330M). Also, because this new version of Flash relies on new operating system functionality, you also need the latest version of Mac OS X (10.6.3) to take advantage of the faster and smoother video.
It won't work with every system, but there's a list of systems that should support the new player. If the hardware acceleration is active you will see a white rectangle in the top left corner. The same page also has further technical details -- you can only hardware accelerate two videos at once, for example!
It's good to see Apple and Adobe are still working together.
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Subscribe to commentsFoiledApr 29th 2010 7:26PM
So what's the cheapest video card I need to buy for my hackintosh to have hardware acceleration on flash videos?
I was going to buy a 8400 gs.. which was like 30 bucks..
Any suggestions?
AlicanCApr 29th 2010 11:41AM
They are not working together. Apple just made a hardware acceleration API and Adobe used it.
TwistApr 29th 2010 5:00PM
The real question here is why are we viewing h.264 in a Flash player anyway? Be nice if they would just detect if Quicktime is installed and let it handle it instead.
master811Apr 29th 2010 8:34PM
except that codecs and containers are 2 entirely different things. Quicktime plays back containers (i.e. .mov .mp4 etc), h.264 is a codec which can be encoded into many different containers.