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Wait a minute, how is comparing H.264 hardware support for decoding (I think you meant decoding, not decompression) vs. software bullshit? Shipping versions of

Wait a minute, how is comparing H.264 hardware support for decoding (I think you meant decoding, not decompression) vs. software bullshit? Shipping versions of Flash still use software for video decoding. The only versions that use hardware are unreleased beta versions of 10.1. Your post sounds like an Adobe apologist making stuff up.

Qz 17y ago
Your post makes it sound like said beta version will never see the light of day.
- illumin8 17y ago
  I'm sure it will see the light of day. I'm using the release candidate on my media center PC right now because it is the first version of Flash that can play Hulu content full screen at 1080p resolution without dropping frames. Running a beta of a Flash Plugin that kinda supports hardware decoding but still crashes occasionally on a Windows PC is much different than running a production quality release of a hardware accelerated Flash plugin on a mobile device.
not_an_alien 17y ago
Hardware decoding of video content has been available since FP version 10, released in October 2008. I'm not making stuff up. I actually have my history of gripes with Adobe, as if I've been working with their software for more than a decade. If anything, I'm just enraged that this article is making stuff up, and I don't like people taking ideology and fundamentalism into a discussion that should be tech-based only.
- yuvi 17y ago
  That isn't hardware decode, that's hardware scaling. http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/05/flash_uses_the_gpu.html http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/05/flash_uses_the_gp... Also, Flash does not use any of the multiple hardware decode APIs on linux yet due to it needing readback support which apparently they don't have yet. http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/solving_different_problems.html http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/solving_different...
- bobbyi 17y ago
  http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/gala/ http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/gala/ 'Welcome to the Flash Player preview release, code-named “Gala,” which introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3, the most recent release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard... The hardware acceleration functionality in the Gala preview release of Flash Player is expected to be included in an update following the release of Flash Player 10.1.'
- blasdel 17y ago
  You are making stuff up. Hardware acceleration for h.264 decoding was introduced in the Windows betas of Flash 10.1 in October 2009. It hasn't shipped yet, and probably won't for another 6 months.

Qz 17y ago

Your post makes it sound like said beta version will never see the light of day.

illumin8 17y ago
I'm sure it will see the light of day. I'm using the release candidate on my media center PC right now because it is the first version of Flash that can play Hulu content full screen at 1080p resolution without dropping frames. Running a beta of a Flash Plugin that kinda supports hardware decoding but still crashes occasionally on a Windows PC is much different than running a production quality release of a hardware accelerated Flash plugin on a mobile device.

not_an_alien 17y ago

Hardware decoding of video content has been available since FP version 10, released in October 2008. I'm not making stuff up. I actually have my history of gripes with Adobe, as if I've been working with their software for more than a decade. If anything, I'm just enraged that this article is making stuff up, and I don't like people taking ideology and fundamentalism into a discussion that should be tech-based only.

yuvi 17y ago
That isn't hardware decode, that's hardware scaling. http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/05/flash_uses_the_gpu.html http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/05/flash_uses_the_gp... Also, Flash does not use any of the multiple hardware decode APIs on linux yet due to it needing readback support which apparently they don't have yet. http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/solving_different_problems.html http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/solving_different...
bobbyi 17y ago
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/gala/ http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/gala/ 'Welcome to the Flash Player preview release, code-named “Gala,” which introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3, the most recent release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard... The hardware acceleration functionality in the Gala preview release of Flash Player is expected to be included in an update following the release of Flash Player 10.1.'
blasdel 17y ago
You are making stuff up. Hardware acceleration for h.264 decoding was introduced in the Windows betas of Flash 10.1 in October 2009. It hasn't shipped yet, and probably won't for another 6 months.