Der har den senere periode været meget snak om H. 264 codec’en fra MPEG LA og hvordan de muligvis ville kunne binde forbrugere til at betale for en licens.

Jeg var egentlig ikke klar over, at der var dukket en Beta 2 op af Flash Player 10.1 Beta og ved egentlig heller ikke hvornår den landende, men her er den

Fejl rettet i Beta 2:

• [FP-1050, FP-1358] Escalation – Active Directory is causing Local Shared Objects to fail when the information is saved on a network location. (2411638)
• Safari Only: File Reference upload test always results in a cancelled event. (2467129)
• Video freezes sometimes when using multi-bit rate streaming in conjunction with hardware video decoding. (2484960) 
• Scaling of videos (fullscreen) causes blockiness or pixilation. (2486489) 
• Youtube video stalls after seek backwards. (2470348)
• [FP-777] Truncation occurs on fonts using advanced anti-aliasing in TextField instances with the autoSize property set to true. (1932320)
• [FP-2118] FileReference.upload does not support files 0-bytes in size. (2422598)
• Can not do paste with keyboard shortcut (CMD+v) in Flash Player applications on Safari/Mac. (2472939)
• Clipboard keyboard shortcuts don’t function in Safari3 and 4. (2472648)

Download:
flashplayer10_1_p2_plugin_121709.exe (IE)
flashplayer10_1_p2_activex_121709.exe (NON-IE)

Bemærk denne driver er WHQL.

Ændringer:

• Adds GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta. Learn more here.
• Adds support for GeForce GT 240.
• Adds support for OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
• Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.0 features and performance enhancements. See CUDA Zone for more details.
• Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for many top new gaming titles including Borderlands, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, FIFA Soccer 10, and more.
• Includes numerous bug fixes including improved performance for Need for Speed: Shift. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.

Download:
195.62_desktop_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe (32bit Windows XP)
195.62_desktop_winxp_64bit_english_whql.exe (64bit Windows XP)
195.62_desktop_win7_winvista_32bit_english_whql.exe (32bit Vista/Windows 7)
195.62_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_english_whql.exe (64bit Vista/Windows 7)

Så kom nVidia med deres seneste driver der understøtter den nye Flash Player 10.1.

Ændringer:

• Adds GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta. Applies to GeForce 8‐series and later GPUs.
• Adds support for GeForce GT 240.
• Adds support for OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
• Adds support for CUDA 3.0 features and performance enhancements. See CUDA Zone for more details.
• Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for many top new gaming titles including Borderlands, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, FIFA Soccer 10, and more.
• Includes numerous bug fixes including improved performance for Need for Speed: Shift. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.

Download:
195.55_desktop_win7_winvista_32bit_english.exe (32bit Vista/Windows 7)
195.55_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_english.exe (64bit Vista/Windows 7)
195.55_desktop_winxp_32bit_english.exe (32bit Windows XP)
195.55_desktop_winxp_64bit_english.exe (64bit Windows XP)

Nu er det muligt at pre-downloade Flash Player 10.1.

10.1 er optimeret på et helt bestemt punkt, nemlig H.264 Video Hardware Acceleration. Dette flytter meget af energien der bruges til at afspille flash film til grafikkortet. Mange vil kunne opleve et meget lavere CPU forbrug og en mere responsiv computer.

Der kræves dog at man opdaterer drivere til ens grafikkort og at ens kort er understøttet.

Bemærk dog at ikke alle producenter er ude med en driver der understøtter Flash H.264 Video Hardware Acceleration.

Dette er stadig kun en en pre-release, dvs. den endelige version kan få et andet build number. Selv har jeg ikke kunnet installere denne pre-download, det kan dog være i andre har mere held med det

Download:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html