Adobe Flash 10.2 Brings Linux Video Acceleration

[wpoely86]

Playing the harry potter HD trailer on youtube with this plugin, on a i7 with a geforce 275 gtx, not a single core goes above 10% usage.

[Wyatt]

Did they fix the glaring bug where the flash plugin stores temporary files in the user's home-directory browser cache rather than /tmp? Because that's really, really, really, really irritating.

[unimatrix]

So, 32bit nVidia users only?

Glad they've covered the majority.

[d2kx]

64-bit (Adobe Flash 10.3 preview 3, built November 17th): http://download.macromedia.com/pub/l..._111710.tar.gz

(No StageVideo/MultiMonitor video)

[pingufunkybeat]

The 10.2 codebase does have video acceleration, as I've been streaming fullscreen HD video from youtube ever since installing a preview version some time ago, with negligible CPU use.

I assume that it's based on shaders.

[pingufunkybeat]

This is 64-bit, using Radeon OSS drivers, BTW.

[Beiruty]

64-bit (Adobe Flash 10.3 preview 3, built November 17th): http://download.macromedia.com/pub/l..._111710.tar.gz

(No StageVideo/MultiMonitor video)

So what is new in it if there is no video acceleration?

[pingufunkybeat]

Actually, scratch that, the IMAX demo takes too much CPU at 1080. I'm sure I was streaming HD stuff before with very little CPU usage, though....

Hrm....

[MiUNX]

The 1080p IMAX sample is crap, try an actual trailer in 1080p and compare performance. There is no improvement what-so-ever over previous version... using 64bit preview here.

[brianafischer]

So what is new in it if there is no video acceleration?

I believe the link supplied above is for the Flash Player Square 10.2 beta 3.

There are two versions of flash beta, as explained here
1. Adobe Flash Player "Square" (64-Bit)
2. Adobe Flash Player "Stage Video" (32-Bit)