Flash 10.1 Beta 3 Released

Adobe Labs

 

Thanks for the heads up, a few people mentioned beta1 was better than beta2 , so i wonder how beta3 will fair, just make sure you remove the previous version before you upgrade.

 

This good news and all but but where is the 64bit version of flash that was promised so long ago?

 

does anybody else have problems with some low bitrate videos on youtube being garbled when being played?

see examples below.

EDIT : MY INTEL 4500MHD PLAYS FINE, BUT MY ATI HD 4330 PLAYS GABLED WITH ATI CATALYST V10.3 BETA , IT LOOKS LIKE AN ATI DRIVER PROBLEM.

EDIT 2 : JUST INSTALLED ATI CATALYST V10.1 AND THE YOUTUBE VIDEO PLAYS FINE, LOOKS LIKE A PROBLEM WITH V10.3 BETA, ANYBODY ELSE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVV9S0D6a6Y&feature=fvw

 

Plays well enough on my Nvidia GPU.

 

Just to be clear with everyone, you nee to get supported GPU drivers to use Flash 10.1. Go on the manufacture website and get the latest drivers available (these maybe beta drivers). Else it won't work properly during video playback.

 

Just finished downloading and will see how it goes.

 

I know right. I've been patiently waiting for what seems like forever now.

 

Wow a lot better for my 1810tz, the beta 2 was a tiny bit choppy. With beta 3 no choppyness at all! wooohoooooo

 

Play YouTube with HTML5

 

It is out, I use it in Ubuntu.

 

My sister has one of those 1st gen dell mini 10, running XP sp3, equipped with an intel gma 500. I updated its driver from this website: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...Product=Intel®+Graphics+Media+Accelerator+500

I also uninstalled flash 10 and installed flash 10.1 beta 3. However, playing a simple 360p on youtube brings the cpu usage to 80-85%, hence the flash beta doesn't seem to work (and that's not even on full screen, lol). Could I have done something wrong? Both Firefox 3.6 and IE 8 yields same result.

The latest driver should support flash 10.1 right?

 

I'm having the same issue with my Vaio w/ GMA500, zero improvement from beta 2 to beta 3 w/ xp - video performance is awful on hulu even on 360p. I suspect flash beta 3 is only supported with the updated windows 7 drivers (not XP).

 

I use it on my sony VGN-BZ560P with XP and it works with no problems.

 

XP is supported for some GPUs, but not Intel GPUs according to the Flash 10.1 beta release notes.
The release notes contains this:

So... it sounds like those of you with XP and Intel graphics are out of luck.

 

It doesn't even support full screen.

 

IMO, it will take quite some time for HTML5 to really take any market share from Flash and other media plug-ins.

 

Yeah, HTML5 on YouTube has a few drawbacks right now.
1. It only works in Google Chrome or something w/ Chrome's rendering engine
2. It switches to Flash anyway when you full-screen the video
3. It has worse performance than Flash.

So... not terribly useful yet.

 

Though I imagine that's why Apple refuses to support Flash on the iPhone/iPod/iPad; simply because the future (however distant it may be) is HTML5.

 

Absolutely not! The reason is only for profit. If Flash is on the iPad/iPhone, this means that people will be able to play for free, Flash games instead of purchasing them (which Apple makes a nice profit), it means you'll have access to Hulu and similar website so you won't buy TV shows on iTunes, you can listen to internet radio or play music of your choice which means you won't buy music from iTunes, and other apps from the iTunes store.

Most of games on the iPhone are paying Flash version of a free online game.
Oh and let's not forget that people can make applications with Flash, this means less applications sold as well.

Steve Job saying HTML 5 is the futures, is just to delay as much as he can, and when HTML5 is a must, he still won't do it, and find million of other excuse for not implementing it. Or will say "It's in the works" and pull a Duke Nukem Forever.

 

I don't disagree with you in the slightest, but Jobs IS right, HTML5 is the future. One day flash, java and other plug-ins simply won't be needed.

 

Future.. I guess... but so far HTML5 is extremely far behind Flash. Yes yes, we all know that probably above 50% of Flash content on a website is abysmally made. But as a Flash programmer as myself (well I program Flash for fun - not my work field), when done right, Flash can be really powerful well integrated tool to make great website or web applications or even offline applications.
Flash now is like when HTML and GIF animation picture appeared.. you had site like these:
http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/
That will eventually change, and already we see a very great progress in this.

It is true that since Adobe acquired Macromedia, Flash development virtually stop. But, if Flash 10.1 is any indication, it could mean that development has started again. If Adobe actually acquired Macromedia for Flash (and not for Fireworks editor), than I think Flash will be interesting.

 

Installed on my Macbook. I've had better CPU temperature, just judging by the fans, but horrible screen tearing and framerate issues with Flash videos, particularly ABC.com.

 

works like a charm ^^ gpu acceleration enabled

 

I mean, I'm not against Flash, or Adobe at all. I hope that with the onset of HTML5, Adobe will rethink Flash and really encourage development.

 

I still don't notice a difference here on my Vaio TT when I play flash HD video.

 

Here http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/ is an online image drawing application done in html5 .

 

The problem with HTML5 is the same as in Flash.. it uses CPU to draw everything. Well except video's, which Adobe is addressing now. (Also HTML5 is a pain to program compared to Flash).
What we really need is a a technology that uses the GPU all the way to render. Of course, if the page has complex effects, 3D graphics and such, then the GPU will require more power, and we are back to square one.

 

I think silverlight and flash beta use gpu composite already not just video. Silverlight should be able to do gpu 3d too.

Edit: Silverlight still has no GPU 3d support.