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Adobe Flash Player 10.2 beta brings greater hardware acceleration
The idea behind Stage Video is that it'll enable hardware acceleration of the whole video rendering pipeline, and as a result, decrease CPU load by up to 85%. If that's not enough to get excited about, Adobe claims that Stage Video will make Flash player best-in-class for playback performance of video, with higher frame rates, reduced memory usage, and higher video quality with greater pixel fidelity. To the end-user Stage Video means faster and smoother video playback on the Web, and most importantly, Flash video will no longer slow your computer to a crawl.
Another addition in the 10.2 update is hardware acceleration support for Internet Explorer 9, which takes advantage of the native acceleration hooks available in IE9 for rendering surfaces. Support for full screen mode with multiple monitors has also been improved, now allowing you to keep video in full screen mode on one monitor while still being able to use the other for something useful rather than a blank, black screen reminiscent of a chalk board. Native custom mouse cursor support has also been integrated into Flash player, which will be useful for mouse-orientated Flash-based games.
Adobe reckons that Stage Video will bring "native video performance" to the desktop, and therefore could be an important step in the war with HTML5 video tagging. Grab the latest beta of Flash player 10.2 for Windows, OS X and Linux from the Adobe beta labs -- and then check out Adobe's Stage Video YouTube demo, which has already begun leveraging the new Flash technology.
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Subscribe to commentsAshutosh MishraDec 1st 2010 8:21AM
What is that button next to the 'close' button in the screenshot? Never seen it before.
DarakDec 1st 2010 8:37AM
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That's a "send to other monitor" button from a utility like UltraMon.
Samuel GibbsDec 1st 2010 10:47AM
@(Unverified) Indeed @Darak is right it's Ultramon. I use it for managing two monitors. It puts quick switch buttons on any window that doesn't have compatibility issues. Apologies, I forgot about that when I was taking the screen shot.
motangDec 1st 2010 8:49AM
Dang no 64bit Linux version yet.
hectormaciasa79Dec 1st 2010 9:29PM
@motang
preview player 3 64 bits of flash player.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_square.html
Mike ZachaczewskiDec 1st 2010 5:04PM
Time to download the new adobe flash player. Good job Adobe!
minibarDec 2nd 2010 12:29PM
flash 10.2 plays fast and low cpu with firefox 4b7, but idk how to get this to work with chrome on win-xp 32 bit since chrome wants to use it's built-in flash player. seems like once a long time ago that to get something like this to happen i had to install chromium or canary and edit options because in chrome they weren't editable, and then switch back to chrome. does anyone know how to get flash beta 10.2 to work with chrome on win-xp 32 bit?
minibarDec 2nd 2010 1:04PM
nevermind
go to chrome:plugins
select details
disable 10.1
in my defense, i've had no coffee this morning.