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Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 05:20 am
Hardware acceleration added to Flash Player 10.1 for Mac
Adobe has released a new version of its Flash Player for Mac that officially supports hardware acceleration for H.264 video content.The update 10.1.82.76 was announced Tuesday by Adobe product manager Thibault Imbert on his blog. The feature, code-named "Gala," had been announced several months prior, but was unavailable with the official release of Flash Player 10.1 for Mac in June. In a break from usual protocol, Adobe enabled the new feature in a security release.
Hardware acceleration in Flash Player 10.1 for Mac is available only for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the following graphics cards: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M.
According to Adobe, a CPU utilization reduction of up to two-thirds is possible when GPU hardware acceleration is active.
Flash Player for Mac has recently been the subject of controversy. In April, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an open letter criticizing Adobe's Flash offerings. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen subsequently dismissed Jobs' letter as a "smokescreen."
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Funny thing adobe only supports nvidia. Apple just released their mac pros and aren't offering nvidia as an option. Once again adobe fails by falling behind. I see this as a fine example of what Jobs was referring to in regards to developers holding the ios back by not utilising up to date hardware. Thereby holding features hostage by software that simply lags. I have an ATI Radeon 4870 hd in my mac pro. And flash runs like hell. Was hoping they would have showed some dedication by now to have a decent desktop version. If they can't do that how are they ever gonna get a mobile version up to par?
And for that matter. Their CS Suites are getting lazy, innovative and buggier every release. Just what in the he'll is really going on at adobe. Perhaps the shareholders should oust some people!?
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Originally Posted by davidcarswell 
Funny thing adobe only supports nvidia. Apple just released their mac pros and aren't offering nvidia as an option. Once again adobe fails by falling behind.
Funny thing adobe only supports nvidia. Apple just released their mac pros and aren't offering nvidia as an option. Once again adobe fails by falling behind.
Adobe is using official Apple APIs to access the hardware acceleration, these APIs only provide access to (recent) Nvidia graphic cards.
I don't know how easy it would be for Adobe to use other APIs that support hardware acceleration with a wider selection of video cards. I don't know whether such APIs even exist or whether other vendors program the hardware acceleration themselves. But the precise choice of supported graphic cards was made by Apple.
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Originally Posted by davidcarswell
Funny thing adobe only supports nvidia. Apple just released their mac pros and aren't offering nvidia as an option. Once again adobe fails by falling behind. I see this as a fine example of what Jobs was referring to in regards to developers holding the ios back by not utilising up to date hardware. Thereby holding features hostage by software that simply lags. I have an ATI Radeon 4870 hd in my mac pro. And flash runs like hell. Was hoping they would have showed some dedication by now to have a decent desktop version. If they can't do that how are they ever gonna get a mobile version up to par?
And for that matter. Their CS Suites are getting lazy, innovative and buggier every release. Just what in the he'll is really going on at adobe. Perhaps the shareholders should oust some people!?
Funny thing adobe only supports nvidia. Apple just released their mac pros and aren't offering nvidia as an option. Once again adobe fails by falling behind. I see this as a fine example of what Jobs was referring to in regards to developers holding the ios back by not utilising up to date hardware. Thereby holding features hostage by software that simply lags. I have an ATI Radeon 4870 hd in my mac pro. And flash runs like hell. Was hoping they would have showed some dedication by now to have a decent desktop version. If they can't do that how are they ever gonna get a mobile version up to par?
And for that matter. Their CS Suites are getting lazy, innovative and buggier every release. Just what in the he'll is really going on at adobe. Perhaps the shareholders should oust some people!?
It's not the fault of Adobe that only a subset of all graphics cards currently deployed on Apple machines are supported. Apple's official API supports only a few cards, namely the newer NVidia 9400M, the 330 and the 320. Even the older 8600GT-M isn't on the list. Though I believe hardware-wise it is also capable of H/W decompression.
Don't care anymore. With the Safari Youtube5 Plugin I haven't used flash for quite a while. If I accouter Flash anyway, I just use the Develop Panel to switch to the iPad UserId. Has worked every time till now... Oh and I used to love Chromium but Safari rules! Give it a try...
Seriously, do you even use Adobe CS products. You seem to be just copying what others say. As a matter of fact, "innovative" is a good thing.
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Originally Posted by davidcarswell
Funny thing adobe only supports nvidia. Apple just released their mac pros and aren't offering nvidia as an option. Once again adobe fails by falling behind. I see this as a fine example of what Jobs was referring to in regards to developers holding the ios back by not utilising up to date hardware. Thereby holding features hostage by software that simply lags. I have an ATI Radeon 4870 hd in my mac pro. And flash runs like hell. Was hoping they would have showed some dedication by now to have a decent desktop version. If they can't do that how are they ever gonna get a mobile version up to par?
And for that matter. Their CS Suites are getting lazy, innovative and buggier every release. Just what in the he'll is really going on at adobe. Perhaps the shareholders should oust some people!?
Funny thing adobe only supports nvidia. Apple just released their mac pros and aren't offering nvidia as an option. Once again adobe fails by falling behind. I see this as a fine example of what Jobs was referring to in regards to developers holding the ios back by not utilising up to date hardware. Thereby holding features hostage by software that simply lags. I have an ATI Radeon 4870 hd in my mac pro. And flash runs like hell. Was hoping they would have showed some dedication by now to have a decent desktop version. If they can't do that how are they ever gonna get a mobile version up to par?
And for that matter. Their CS Suites are getting lazy, innovative and buggier every release. Just what in the he'll is really going on at adobe. Perhaps the shareholders should oust some people!?
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Originally Posted by IronHeadSlim
Seriously, do you even use Adobe CS products. You seem to be just copying what others say. As a matter of fact, "innovative" is a good thing.
Seriously, do you even use Adobe CS products. You seem to be just copying what others say. As a matter of fact, "innovative" is a good thing.
It's true. CS gets crappier by the day. In particular the UI. Simply atrocious.
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Originally Posted by leafy
It's not the fault of Adobe that only a subset of all graphics cards currently deployed on Apple machines are supported. Apple's official API supports only a few cards, namely the newer NVidia 9400M, the 330 and the 320. Even the older 8600GT-M isn't on the list. Though I believe hardware-wise it is also capable of H/W decompression.
It's not the fault of Adobe that only a subset of all graphics cards currently deployed on Apple machines are supported. Apple's official API supports only a few cards, namely the newer NVidia 9400M, the 330 and the 320. Even the older 8600GT-M isn't on the list. Though I believe hardware-wise it is also capable of H/W decompression.
The beauty of it is that if Adobe are using the documented APIs, once Apple get around to updating that support it should work right off the bat.
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Originally Posted by leafy
It's not the fault of Adobe that only a subset of all graphics cards currently deployed on Apple machines are supported. Apple's official API supports only a few cards, namely the newer NVidia 9400M, the 330 and the 320. Even the older 8600GT-M isn't on the list. Though I believe hardware-wise it is also capable of H/W decompression.
It's not the fault of Adobe that only a subset of all graphics cards currently deployed on Apple machines are supported. Apple's official API supports only a few cards, namely the newer NVidia 9400M, the 330 and the 320. Even the older 8600GT-M isn't on the list. Though I believe hardware-wise it is also capable of H/W decompression.
i bought a 2008 macbook pro(512MB 8600GT) for more than $2,000 and it already feels obsolete
i have to make it last one more year until the 3yr warranty runs out. It sucks having an 8600gt and not being able to use its full potential!! do you think the hardware acceleration would make it run cooler?? if so i'll keep my an eye out some sort of hack.
So you are saying that every day when you open Creative Suite programs, that they have been updated overnight with crappier versions?
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Originally Posted by monstrosity
It's true. CS gets crappier by the day. In particular the UI. Simply atrocious.
It's true. CS gets crappier by the day. In particular the UI. Simply atrocious.
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I have an iMac with a ATi x1600 graphic card. Anyone know how to hack Flash or OS X.6 for that matter to allow the graphic card to work on flash video, etc. I know that the card can do it its just that the OS/Flash doesnt support it and I was wondering if anyone figured a way to enable it for good.
Thanks