Story: Flash Player gets H.264 support
Submitted by jbrown on Wed, 2007/08/22 - 15:06.
Flash Player 9 Update 3 will include support for the H.264 video codec. H.264 has dramatically reduced bandwidth requirements compared with FLV.
The release will also support hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback.
Adobe engineer Tinic Uro, who works on the Flash Player, has more technical detail on his blog.
What does this mean for OpenPackage Video? As FFmpeg has H.264 encoding capability, we will be incorporating H.264 support in the near future.
Flash Player 9 Update 3 is slated to be available in the autumn (September - November). A beta is available.
Once you see that clip
http://nickrobillard.ca/hd_demo/video/jw-mod_f9ms.html
you know that we need to use that encoding!
In full screen in my laptop, without problems... amazing.
Hmm.. "I'm not seeing anything."
I get the loading spinner, and I see percent and progress bar increase to 100% after some waiting but no video.. this in ff and IE with latest flash player from Adobe.
It's still working. I just tested that link again.
You're right. I guess the detector didn't detect that my ff wasn't in fact the latest and greatest, and for IE, I only checked under IE Tab (firefox extension that embeds IE in a tab). Opening IE in its own windows showed the Get the latest Flash, which apparently, is required :)
Thanks for the funny clip, too.
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