Along with their efforts Adobe Reader X towards more secure software, Adobe is pushing enough to accelerate the development Flash. The beta Flash Player 10.2, Which was filed today, offers a new feature called Stage Video, designed to accelerate video playback, currently only for Windows and Mac OS X.
The idea is that the whole process of viewing video (in addition to video playback is composed of color, scaling, translation and other) use hardware acceleration, Adobe achieved by a decrease of up to 85% in the use of CPU (the eternal problem of users' home) and making the experience of playing videos found something much more fluid even in high-definition video. Apparently this technology has already been implemented in Google TV and the result is visible: 1080 videos in a modest hardware platform.
Also new in the beta Flash Player 10.2 is support for hardware acceleration in Internet Explorer 9, a browser that already works well in this regard but these touches that improves performance by 35% when using Flash. Also added support for multiple screens, allowing while watching full-screen video on a monitor can run other intensive tasks, and there are new APIs for developers to create their own animated mouse cursors, which will be rendered by Flash rather than requiring that task to the operating system.
Who probably will not be too happy are the users of Linux that are not yet get hardware acceleration even at an initial level, and this explains why this platform is so determined to embrace HTML5 rather than to wait forever for a nod from Adobe or by the maturity of other implementations as Lightspark or Gnash.
Download Adobe Flash Player 10.2
