New Flash Player with H.264 GPU Decoding for Mac

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Thibault Imbert just blogged about the release of Flash Player 10.1.82.76, which includes support for H.264 GPU decoding on the Mac.

You should notice now a nice difference when playing H.264 content on your Mac in terms of CPU usage. We rarely enable new features in security releases but we really wanted to enable such a cool feature. For more details about it, Tinic already posted about this.

Some of you may remember talk of a Flash Player “Gala” that was put out as a beta right before Flash Player 10.1 was released. The GPU decoding didn’t make it into the 10.1 release so we had to wait for a security release to add it. That security release is here and it should make quite a bit of difference for Mac users who are playing H.264 video through Flash Player.

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  • JulesLt

    Excellent stuff, and evidence that behind the rhetoric, both firms can collaborate on doing what is best for end users (Adobe in improving Flash video performance, Apple in exposing the access required by the Flash engineers).