Flash Player 10.2 (codenamed 'Spicy') has some great new features, ensuring full HD 1080P playback using the minimum amount of CPU usage and support for the upcoming Internet Explorer 9, which is currently available as a public release candidate version, and was released on February 10. It's a great update from the guys at Adobe Labs!
According to Adobe's stats, 99% of the world's internet users has Flash Player 10 installed. Penetration of the 10.1 player already reached 85 % as of December 2010.
Adobe released the latest version of their Flash player 10.2 on Februari 8 for Windows, Mac OS and Linux with a lot of cool new features, most important of which is the 'Stage Video' hardware acceleration.
Stage Video.
While delivering you beautifully rendered Flash video's and cool, interactive webdesigns, the flash player consumes your computer's CPU power. With Stage Video, playback quality is improved, enabeling flash developers to deliver content that uses up to 85% less of your processor, using the H.264 hardware accelerated decoding, which came with 'Gala', the 10.1 upgrade last August. So instead of using your computer's CPU, it uses your GPU (graphics card) to render your HD content effortlessly.
New Actionscript!
With Stage Video, there's also some new script that comes along for developers. Flash player 10.2 introduces a new Action script 3.0 Class suitingly called 'StageVideo', which represents a display instance in the hardware video plane:
Internet Explorer 9.
With all those cool video's flying over the net, X86 32-bit processors have reached the end of their capabilities. A Next-gen 64-bit computer gives you the opportunity to finally have more than 4 GB of RAM, allowing those processor intensive software applications to run more smoothly. (Adobe 'After Effects' and 'Premiere Pro' have become 64-bit exclusively since the CS5 suite). Also, the LBA (Logical Block Adressing) of the Windows 32-bit OS only allows for hard drives upto 2.1 Terabyte. The 64-bit OS can handle any storage device upto 144 Petabyte (a 1000 Terabytes). So, that's something to keep in mind, since the latest generation of (external) harddrives introduced last June, have a storage volume of 3TB. Microsoft's newest version of Internet Explorer will be 64-bit compatible, bringing you HTML5 video, but Adobe already released a beta version of their Flash 64-bit flash player called 'Square' last year September. although the newest version 10.2 is fully capable of supporting IE9, and has been developed as a plug-in as such, a native player, allowing full compatibility with 64-bit browsing on Windows 7, is still in the works.
If you are using Windows 7 on a 64-bit system like me, and you want to get the public release candidate for IE9 go here. Afterwards, you can install the 'Square' beta version of Adobe's 64-bit Flash Player, which you can download here. For more info on 'Square' from the Adobe tech guys, check out Adobe Labs. Internet Explorer 9 is also available for 32-bit operating systems.
Big Buck Bunny.
To learn more about 'Stage Video' and appropriate actionscript 3.0 handling, read Thibault Imbert's article. To see it in action, first make sure to get the 10.2 update now, and then watch 'Big Buck Bunny'. Great animation!
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