Performance of HDS in AIR on Macbook Pro Retina is terrible

Hi
My client provides online streaming with the technology of Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (protected by FlashAccess). The client is build with Adobe AIR. Recently, we've found the playback performance of HDS on Macbook Pro Retina is terrible. We see choopy all the time during the playback. The same streaming plays well in the browser and other Macbook Pro (non-Retina) computers.
I'm wondering if the latest AIR doesn't support Retina display well. Does anyone know if there is a workaround or when the updated AIR runtime can support Retina display well?
Thanks.

Could you please open a new bug report on this over at bugbase.adobe.com?  Please post back with the URL and I'll also follow up internally.
Thanks,
Chris

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