We know you don't actually care about 99 percent of the contents of
the latest Flash Player update. What you really want to know is whether those new
1080p YouTube streams will run smoothly on your machine thanks to the newly implemented graphics card video acceleration.
AnandTech has come to our collective aid on that one, with an extensive testing roundup of some of the more popular desktop and mobile GPU solutions. NVIDIA's ION scored top marks, with "almost perfect" Hulu streaming (see table above), though Anand and crew encountered some issues with ATI's chips and Intel's integrated GMA 4500 MHD, which they attribute to the new Flash Player's beta status. On the OS front, although Linux and Mac OS are not yet on the official hardware acceleration beneficiary list, the wily testers found marked improvements in performance under OS X. It seems, then, that Adobe has made good on its
partnership with NVIDIA, and made ION netbooks all the more scrumptious in the process, while throwing a bone to the Mac crowd, but leaving the majority of users exercising the virtue of patience until the finalized non-beta Player starts making the rounds in a couple of months. Hit the read link for further edification.
posted November 17th 2009 5:46AM
it's broken the iplayer on plex for me .. :(
Isn't this completely missing the point? Playing a video (especially internet quality video) shouldn't NEED hardware acceleration. VLC probably uses less CPU without GPU acceleration than flash 10.1 uses with it.
Maybe a better solution would be to replace Flash with something that doesn't suck. I know those flash ads showing a looping 5 second animation are high tech and all, but should they really be taking a significant portion of my CPU under ANY circumstances?
VLC FTW!
YES! the day after getting my HP Mini 311 - 10.1 beta is out - AWESOME
I tried it, no improvement what-so-ever on my P4 3.06ghz HT with 2gb RAM and 580mhz 7600GT.
Damn you flash!
The 854x480 4 inch touch screen is a very welcome feature, no keyboard needed or wanted. With open software I'd be tempted to jump all over this package but....it's LTE short of a Mobile M/H ATSC tuner. The addition of those two features would make this phone a thing of beauty.
For some reason, after installing the beta when I try to watch a video fullscreen on cruncyroll.com (e.g. the HD test video at http://www.crunchyroll.com/hd_demo?src=hd_demo&720p=1 ) in Chrome it appears on my laptop's main panel - not the 24" screen where the browser is situated. It doesn't due this in Internet Explorer nor does Youtube behave like this in Chrome.
Switching the 24" to be the main screen also 'fixes' it, but I like my taskbar where I can see it clearly thank you.
Same thing happens in Firefox so the problem is not with the browser, but with the plugin version of Flash 10.1 (I assume IE uses the ActiveX version while the other two use the plugin)
I get very poor video quiality with 10.1, even though my process are super low with any flash, the quality is unacceptable. I watch Hulu videos on my projector and every flash video is glitchy poor quality and look fine with flash 9.
Picture quality is much worse in the full-screen mode - pixelated crap. That's on an old Radeon 9600 card. Had to roll back