readwriteweb.com — Adobe today launched the latest version of its near ubiquitous Web video software, Adobe Flash Player 9. It's codenamed Moviestar, because it includes H.264 standard video support – the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players.
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macslutAug 21, 2007
What kind of H.264 encoder are you using? You should either switch or learn how to use it.
thailand1972Aug 21, 2007
the youtube pipe gonna blow
channelcatAug 21, 2007
You may not know, but Mozilla is an evil corporation that is working to remove ads from web sites with their evil browser called Firefox. Your failure to view ads is theft, blasphemy, and madness. I recommend running a less evil and technically superior browser such as IE.<a class="user" href="http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com">http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com</a>
sctwp09Aug 21, 2007
He's talking when they get those god awful camera shots that show more of the dude then the chick...
drzeusAug 21, 2007
You won't. It's a simultaneous beta release for all three platforms. I guess the Linux code is finally stabilizing enough to make that possible.
drzeusAug 21, 2007
OSX releases of Flash Player have been in line with the Windows releases all through Flash 8 and 9. There was a slight delay for the Intel OSX release, though, but I imagine that required some special optimizations and things. You're right on the Linux release, though. That was stuck at 7 for quite a while, and it sucked. As you'll discover, though, this beta release will be available for all three platforms, Windows, Mac, and Linux, simultaneously. The Flash Player team is becoming much more agile now that they've got a good cross-platform build process.I disagree about your claim against widespread adoption too. YouTube has already re-encoded their videos as H.264 for the iPhone, and as the top player in the market, they've got the power and user loyalty to switch to this new codec without much backlash. Just look at MySpace as an example. They started requiring Flash Player 9 back when it was still new, and other than some "oh, that's weird" comments from the tech community, it's obvious that people were okay with upgrading. MySpace is still as popular as ever. It may not be growing much anymore, but Facebook and other sites are starting to show that their clean designs and other stuff are way better than the s**t heap that MySpace pages look like.
sukimashitaAug 22, 2007
The last thing I would touch is silverlight... You and those digging me down should read again what is written in the release notes and articles."Hardware-accelerated fullscreen video playback"; means it uses OpenGL textures for fast scaling of the video to fullscreen to avoid 100% CPU hogging. It is not using H.264 hardware acceleration and still uses software rendering/scaling in non-fullscreen mode which basically gives you the nice 100% CPU hog on ad-plastered websites.Hope for the future is here though since the fullscreen stuff appears to use OpenGL/GLX and perhaps this will replace the software rendering stuff in the future. Well, don't get me wrong the new features are nice.