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Adobe Flash Player Update 3 Beta 1 Heavily Improves Flash Video

Adobe has released a new Flash Player 9 update rich of performance and quality improvements especially in video playback
By Fabio Sonnati
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June 17, 2007 10:30 AM EDT
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Adobe has released a new Flash Player 9 update (build 9.0.60.120) rich of performance and quality improvements expecially in video playback.
In my opinion the best improvements are:

- Multi-threaded video decoding. The VP6 video decoding will now be performed in a separate thread if a multi-core system is detected while the main thread does rendering and post processing of the video. 1080p video decoding is now possible on dual core machines.

- Full screen video decoding will leverage hardware scaling. Wonderful! why to scale a 640x480 video to 1280x1024 using the main processor when all the computer video cards today have video scaling technology? I think this is really a must for the definitive consacration of Flash Video Technology. I'll post as soon as possible a test of this feature.

- VBL in fullscreen. The player is now capable to syncronize the rendering in fullscreen to the "vertical blank" for a smooth playback of flash movies.

- Automatic Mipmap for scaled videos and picture. Optimal for video thumbs

- Faster Vp6 entropy decoding and improved deblocking filter.

I'm very excited of these improvements. I'll keep you updated with tests and samples.

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Fabio Sonnati, SYS-CON's Adobe Flash blogger, is founder of Progetto Sinergia, a team of ICT consultants specializing in Internet, video and multimedia applications. He has contributed to the developing of complex Flash and Flash Media Server applications for Healthcare, Education and Telecommunication customers. Fabio shares his FMS and Flash Video Technology knowledge on his Flash Video Blog: http://flashvideo.progettosinergia.com.

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Flash News 06/13/07 02:42:41 PM EDT

Multi-threaded video decoding. The VP6 video decoding will now be performed in a separate thread if a multi-core system is detected while the main thread does rendering and post processing of the video. 1080p video decoding is now possible on dual core machines.