Flash player to become 10 times efficient

Dec 16, 2010 by admin    No Comments    Posted under: iOS

While corssing over John Nack blog, i came to know that the next version of Flash player could end up to ten times efficient compared to its previous versions. The Biggest advantage i see is YouTube can be accessed smoothly.

Flash Player 10.2 introduces several new features, including mouse cursor options for developers, full-screen playback support for multiple monitors, and IE9 rendering support. However, it’s a new optimized video-playback technology that caught our eye: Called Stage Video, it’ll shift the performance load from the CPU over to the GPU.

A demo video (below) showcased the upcoming version of Flash Player on both a PC and Apple’s new 11-inch MacBook Air. In the video, CPU usage on the MacBook Air (which doesn’t even ship with Adobe Flash) spikes to around 125% of CPU usage when playing a 1080p clip, but when Stage Video is enabled, the CPU load drops to an impressive average of around 10%.

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If you want to check out Adobe’s latest performance claims for yourself, you can download a beta of the new Flash Player now and head on over to YouTube to get testing.

Are you happy to see improvements to Flash Player, or are you waiting for the day in which HTML 5 video playback rules the roost? Let us know in the comments.

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