Flash Player supports H.264 - the standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD

Already a broadly adopted industry standard, the inclusion of the H.264 codec in Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR, the Creative Suite product line, and the upcoming Adobe Media Player will accelerate customer workflows, enabling the creation and repurpose of high-quality Web video content without extra development costs.

Adobe Flash Player Adobe have just announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 9, code-named Moviestar, which includes H.264 standard video support - the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players - and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support, as well as hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback.

With updated Adobe® Flash® Player, it will enable it to deliver HD television quality and premium audio content and pave the way to expand rich media Flash experiences on the desktop and H.264 ready consumer devices. The latest update for Adobe® Flash® Player 9 is available in beta for immediate download on Adobe Labs.

Some of the new features in Adobe® Flash® Player 9 (MovieStar)

Improved performance - Multi-core support, full screen mode with hardware scaling, multi-threaded video decoding
Flash Player Cache - Cross-domain Flex Framework caching, reduced application size and faster download times
Works better with Ajax - Improved JavaScript integration, improved browser integration
Reaching parity on Linux - Full screen mode now for Linux Flash Player

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Note: Read the beta usage carefully, you might need to uninstall your existing Adobe® Flash® Player.

Brajeshwar posted this article on Wed, Aug 22nd, 2007 at 12:25 am
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ORI0N August 25th, 2007 at 7:58 am 1

Now this is good news!

I’ve been embracing this new codec, and am excited to see that businesses are starting to produce some products that will support this new codec.

Nice article thanks for the information!
mlankton October 6th, 2007 at 1:05 am 2

While H.624 (mpeg4 to most of you reading) produces good results in Blu Ray and HD DVD, the best seem to be coming from Microsoft’s VC1 codec. There are some examples of HD DVD encoded in VC1 where you would never, ever guess that HD DVD had a storage handicap compared to Blu Ray.