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

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Adobe Flash PlayerAdobe 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.

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  • ORI0N

    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!

  • ORI0N

    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!

  • http://aventhusiast.com mlankton

    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.

  • http://aventhusiast.com mlankton

    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.