Adobe ’s premise a powerful new component it ’ll be invest into its Flash Video Player 9 , bestow support for that red - hot H.264 codec , the video recording compression routine that ’s behind Blu - ray , HD videodisc and lots of HD goodness all over the videoscape . Adobe ’s also heightened the efficiency of Flash sound recording , adding AAC sound contraction . Perhaps the most important part of the announcement is the addition of computer hardware acceleration for playback of all different types of full - screen video .
What does that mean for us ? Over the next few months , watching video over the web ( think YouTube , MySpace TV , pullulate video everywhere ) will be perceptibly improved , finally taking advantage of those fancy graphic cards you have tucked into your PC and Macs and H.264 , too . Another giving plus is that the AAC audio codec is so effective that it disembarrass up more processor tycoon for handling video . Adobe also told us it ’s slipped in better support of multi - core processors as well .
Adobe ’s offering this latest add-on to Flash 9 , code - named Moviestar , as abeta download now , and says this fall it will be rolling out as an robotlike download into the Flash support that ’s spread across 98 % of the Web .
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