Jan Zdarsa Adobe is preparing a new version of the Flash player 10.1 codenamed "Gala". Gala supports hardware support for Flash video playback in H.264 format. And starting today, you can download the beta version for Mac.
You will need the latest Mac OS X 10.6.3 and beta for the option of hardware support to play Flash video Flash Player 10.1 (currently RC2). Your Mac must also have one of the following graphics: Nvidia GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M, or GeForce GT 330M.
If you are not sure if you have these graphics on your Mac, the following machines are involved:
- Macbooks starting sales on January 21, 2009
- March 3, 2009 Mac Mini
- Macbook Pro with the start of sales from October 14, 2008
- iMac from Q2009 XNUMX
Adobe would not be able to use the hardware acceleration support if Apple did not allow 3rd party developers to use the hardware support. This time, we can't blame Adobe for not taking this step sooner.
If you don't like beta testing, then wait a few weeks when Adobe Flash 10.1 should be officially released. According to the first reports, there really is a significant reduction in CPU load when playing Flash video.
So I installed it, and now YouTube videos use up my processor about 2x more than before. :/
I'll just add that in the case of hw video acceleration with graphics, there is a white creature in the upper left corner of the video, I regret to announce that not all videos are accelerated :(
also apple writes on their page that in version 10.1 there will be no hw support for playing video for mac osx, it will come in the next version at the end of the year
thanks for the addition!
and what about graphics from ATi are they not supported? or are they just not mentioned?
Since I have a Mac, I don't solve technical things, but I think that old Macbooks with ATI do not support H.264 hardware acceleration.. but maybe I'm completely wrong :)
I tested the mentioned version and I can confirm that when playing a video in 720p on YouTube, the processor demand dropped from 40% to 20%.
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ .. which is probably the most important information of the day .. perhaps not only of the day of flash, adobe and apple
I took the liberty of translating the "Shepherd's Letter" by Steve Jobs http://bit.ly/br3dFJ – Thinking about Flash