Adobe publishes beta of hardware-accelerated h264 decoder

in case, you dare to install beta-software on your set-up:
Adobe published lately a beta of its Flash-Player software vers 10.1 which makes use of hardware acceleration for decoding h264 .. on some Macs.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
seems as though, wot a surprise! , it does work
my mini (supported) is quite & cool, videos are crystal clear and run smooth as silk.
e.g. this video http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-april-28-2010-ken-blackwell doesn't make my Mac stumble .. or sweat.
note:
• this is for DEcoding only, it does NOT speed-up ENcoding/'rendering'! (although technically possible)
• and it is beta.. use on your own risk! if you don't understand the need or purpose - don't install it..
due to, this is no Adobe-exclusive invention, but an Apple-documented feature (well, documented quite recently), we'll hopefully see soon some integration into QT and its dependent apps as iMovie, iTunes, iDVD, FCE etc ...- hardware-accelerated EXport of h264... uiiiii ... would be nice.

you're right!
h264-hardware-acceleration is 'built into the chips', as the name implies.
but you need APIs, to allow any software grant access to that 'wired'-feature.
Apple has lately (2 weeks?) published those ..
(that's why I hope, we'll see that 'feature' in one of the next QT versions ... ).
Adobe was fast, because using h264-decoders on the grafic-card is well-known for longer in the Windows-world .. and for sure, the discussion about 'does the world need Flash anyhow?', speeded up engineering-processes at Adobe ..
as Steve says in his Thoughts on Flash, there's no need for putting the 'open' h264 into a proprietary container, as .flv is. but actually, all around the net, you met h264-video inside those. and for these, flash 10.1. is needed.
for html5/< video > / h264 stuff, this 'decoder' isn't needed, nor has it any effect => it's now Apple's task, to allow webKit/QT to make use of this already existing 'chip feature'.-
technically, that Adobe piece is no decoder, just a detour to some faster decoding ..
with the correct API, you can use those hardware-features for ENcoding ... then, it starts to make fun for iM/FC-users ..
read Stefan's profound reply in the 'Don't know how good German beer is' thread at The Lounge ..

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