Flash Player 9 "Moviestar" Update 3 - New Features
Adobe released another update of Flash Player 9 Update 3 (Moviestar) with the version number - 9.0,115.0. Update for both Windows and Mac and Linux.
About update a little more.
H.264 and AAC support
Using the same API (for downloading Sorenson or On2 VP6 video or more simply FLV), you can download H.264 video in MPEG-4 format. This gives a huge advantage over other tools and technologies that work with H.264. The big plus is that the new video capabilities of the player can be used without recompiling the current SWF files.
I already wrote about HD-video ( here and here ), therefore I will not talk about it in detail.
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Yes, if you are worried about Sorenson and On2 video, you can not worry, because Flash Player still supports and will support this format in the foreseeable future.
The big pole, supporting the H.264 standard, is a long-established community, so the answers to the H.264 questions will be solved theoretically quickly. There are also many programs that support export to H.264, such as Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Improved graphic rendering.
One of the major improvements in Flash Player Update 3 is the improved rendering of pixels on the screen, now faster and better than ever. Due to - hardware support, support for multi-core CPUs, as well as a new model of image representation, which brings the picture to a higher quality.
In addition, news about the fullscreen feature (this feature was introduced in November 2006). Flash Player Update 3 introduces a new API for more flexible and powerful control of the fullscreen mode.
It's hard to believe, but now there is practically no difference in the speed and quality of video playback between fullscreen and normal mode. And before that it was a rather problematic question for developers using fullscreen in their projects.
How it works? You select a rectangular area, and then turn on fullscreen. Flash Player scales pixels, in a selected area, using hardware acceleration, to full screen size.
In normal mode, the renderer depends on your main processor. Now, Flash Player can take advantage of multi-core processors (up to 4 cores) for rendering graphics. While ActionScript is executed in the first processor, the rendering of bitmaps, filters, vector graphics, and video can be shared among other processors, which significantly affects the playback speed.
Flash Player Cache
This is a completely new, and honestly unexpected for me, chip. Flash Player has a cache. What is he doing? I will give an example from life. We have several flex applications. More than 100 KB of identical data is constantly loaded with each Flex-application. With the new cache, the download speeds up at times, since Flash Player will cache the data (components, etc.) that were previously loaded.
The data will be cached in a standard browser cache. There is a new file type - SWZ, in which the cached data will be stored. Advantages on the face and comments are unnecessary.
Plus, for dessert, the official support of Leopard.
About update a little more.
H.264 and AAC support
Using the same API (for downloading Sorenson or On2 VP6 video or more simply FLV), you can download H.264 video in MPEG-4 format. This gives a huge advantage over other tools and technologies that work with H.264. The big plus is that the new video capabilities of the player can be used without recompiling the current SWF files.
I already wrote about HD-video ( here and here ), therefore I will not talk about it in detail.
')
Yes, if you are worried about Sorenson and On2 video, you can not worry, because Flash Player still supports and will support this format in the foreseeable future.
The big pole, supporting the H.264 standard, is a long-established community, so the answers to the H.264 questions will be solved theoretically quickly. There are also many programs that support export to H.264, such as Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Improved graphic rendering.
One of the major improvements in Flash Player Update 3 is the improved rendering of pixels on the screen, now faster and better than ever. Due to - hardware support, support for multi-core CPUs, as well as a new model of image representation, which brings the picture to a higher quality.
In addition, news about the fullscreen feature (this feature was introduced in November 2006). Flash Player Update 3 introduces a new API for more flexible and powerful control of the fullscreen mode.
It's hard to believe, but now there is practically no difference in the speed and quality of video playback between fullscreen and normal mode. And before that it was a rather problematic question for developers using fullscreen in their projects.
How it works? You select a rectangular area, and then turn on fullscreen. Flash Player scales pixels, in a selected area, using hardware acceleration, to full screen size.
In normal mode, the renderer depends on your main processor. Now, Flash Player can take advantage of multi-core processors (up to 4 cores) for rendering graphics. While ActionScript is executed in the first processor, the rendering of bitmaps, filters, vector graphics, and video can be shared among other processors, which significantly affects the playback speed.
Flash Player Cache
This is a completely new, and honestly unexpected for me, chip. Flash Player has a cache. What is he doing? I will give an example from life. We have several flex applications. More than 100 KB of identical data is constantly loaded with each Flex-application. With the new cache, the download speeds up at times, since Flash Player will cache the data (components, etc.) that were previously loaded.
The data will be cached in a standard browser cache. There is a new file type - SWZ, in which the cached data will be stored. Advantages on the face and comments are unnecessary.
Plus, for dessert, the official support of Leopard.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/17084/
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