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Adobe Annouces H.264 Support in Flash

Monday August 20, 2007 11:31 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Adobe is releasing an update to their popular Flash Player 9 with support for the H.264 video codec.

The updated support will allow Flash Player to take advantage of hardware acceleration provided in computer video cards and is also optimized for Dual-Core processors.

Support for the H.264 standard will lead to more Web video content being available in high definition, Randall said. He said Adobe chose to support the standard now because it is being adopted more by content producers and media distributors like cable companies.


A public beta will be available today at labs.adobe.com, with a final release expected in the fall.

Apple supports H.264 as a standard codec in Quicktime. Meanwhile, Apple and Youtube struck a deal in which Youtube has been encoding their content into H.264 for playback on Apple TV and iPhone. This H.264 content has only been available to Apple TV/iPhone users, but Youtube could conceivably start offering the H.264 content to web visitors with the latest Flash plug-in.
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flopticalcube
59 months ago
Wow! Rumors are coming fast and thick now!

The updated support will allow Flash Player to take advantage of hardware acceleration provided in computer video cards


Like the new HD 2600's in the Alu iMacs!
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Multimedia
59 months ago
Looks like H.264 is gaining support from all over the place now.
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drayon
59 months ago
GREAT- Hi-Def advertising and annoyances just what we DON'T NEED!!!!
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Asar
59 months ago
flash for iphone, here we come :D
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todd2000
59 months ago
This is all well and good, but I wish they would get off their arses, and release a UNIVERSAL BINARY of Shockwave Player already! This is getting ridiculous. Yes I know about Rosetta Emulation Mode, but it's slow, and it crashes, with the games I try to play.
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Telp
59 months ago
What exactly does this mean for the iPhone exactly.
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note235
59 months ago
now maybe we can see all flash things?
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arn
59 months ago
it probably doesn't mean anything for the iPhone.... however, if many sites start adopting h.264 encoding, it could open the door to better Flash support on the iPhone. In that, the iPhone has hardware decoders for h.264 but not the normal flash encoding.

Apple reportedly told developers the lack of hardware decoding was one of the reasons for not including Flash... in that doing all the decoding in software burned a lot of battery life.

arn
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NewSc2
59 months ago

What exactly does this mean for the iPhone exactly.


exactly exactly? Grammar aside, what does this mean exactly? Will other websites be able to program flash movies to H.264, or can we even do H.264 games, and view these all on the iPhone?

Or does this just mean flash has a different encoding technique, and still has to be reconverted to a different format to view on the iPhone.

EDIT: Never mind, arn just answered it above.
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DoFoT9
59 months ago
its about time they finally added this support and got with it!!
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