http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/ Engadget Comments for Flash Player 'Gala' brings hardware decoding support to Mac OS X http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Only will help on more recent Macs (for no apparent reason).

My 2007 iMac will do DXVA in Vista (64-bit no less) just fine, but evidently it won't get the H.264 acceleration in OSX.]]>Apr 28th 2010 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Let's do this thing and stop the 98% CPU with 1080p.]]>Apr 28th 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Wouldn't be surprised if Apple came up with a way to prevent mac users from using this.]]>Apr 28th 2010 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Arrg and im stuck on ATi... Well HTML 5 on youtube is still my option for now]]>Apr 28th 2010 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Granted this is in Chrome which seems to use more CPU than any other browser. ]]>Apr 28th 2010 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Determining if video decoding hardware acceleration is active:
When Flash Player is using hardware video decoding in the Gala preview release, you will see a small white square overlaid on the top left of the video.

So if you don't see it. It's not using it.]]>Apr 28th 2010 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Here's a screenshot from a 1080p YT video in Chrome: http://twitpic.com/1j873w]]>Apr 28th 2010 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Yep. Pity Adobe didn't utilize the APIs Apple has had in place for hardware decoding support the last 5+ years. If they had, every graphics card OS X supports hardware decoding on would reap the benefits -- and Flash could have been working better this entire time.]]>Apr 28th 2010 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://tinypic.com/r/n56m0x/5
Conclusions: It's better.]]>Apr 28th 2010 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
So to the people blaming Adobe for not doing this earlier (which everyone except you guys say wasn't possible) and for not doing it on a broader range of hardware, why do you think it's Adobe's fault.

Plex also recently used this new API to add hardware h264 encoding. Like Adobe it only works in 10.6.3 and it only works on Mac's with a 9400M or GT320/330M.

Are you guys suggesting that both Adobe and Plex could have done this earlier but chose not to? Are you also suggesting that both plex and Adobe could have applied this to a larger set of GPU's but both chose to limit it to the exact same limited subset of cards?]]>Apr 28th 2010 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Exactly. I'm in the same boat :(]]>Apr 28th 2010 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/If you read the dev notes before installing you would have noticed that this only works for Safari, Firefox, and Opera]]>Apr 28th 2010 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Seems to be working well so far - about 25% CPU usage when watching normal quality YouTube videos, versus about triple that previously (MBP 13 Late 2009)]]>Apr 29th 2010 4:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Are you an idiot or something?! Did you pass the memo without reading it?

It was darn APPLE all these years that didn't open the APIs for hardware acceleration by Adobe's Flash. Enough already with this Jobsian Myth that it was Adobe's fault...]]>Apr 29th 2010 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Of course, they could've used Quicktime's HW, but they didn't update their runtime for it. And let's not forget that any non-video Flash will be the same crap.]]>Apr 29th 2010 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
The whole point of Flash is that it's ubiquitous and cross platform. If they used QuickTime as the back end it would completely defeat the purpose (not to mention that flash handles multiple codecs besides h264).

Your "solution" is basically that all OSX software should just repackage Apple software since Apple doesn't provide the necessary APIs to match the performance of their software. ]]>Apr 29th 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/screw the iphone, ipad and any stupid device created by this stupid company]]>Apr 29th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Flash still needs to die..]]>Apr 29th 2010 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
It really is a holly mess, and at least the most popular Linux vendors should sit down together (and possibly with HW vendors, too) and agree on a common API for various hardware access needs. Linux excels on the 'many ways to skin a cat' front, but sometimes that very strength can become a terrible burden - this is one of those cases...]]>Apr 28th 2010 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Writing this on my Atom-based Dell Mini 10v.]]>Apr 29th 2010 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
However, I guess for the good of the world, its about time OS X got Hardware accelerated flash after years of Windows PCs having it.]]>Apr 28th 2010 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
No, you're incorrect, Hardware acceleration came out with Flash Player 10 back in 2008. Look it up.]]>Apr 28th 2010 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Yep... MBP using 20-25% less CPU Usage on 1080p youtube videos, awesome.]]>Apr 28th 2010 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Well, using Windows PCs only got acceptable after Windows 7, so I guess it's even.]]>Apr 28th 2010 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Can't agree with you there, it's been pretty rockin' since Windows 95 :)]]>Apr 28th 2010 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Flash has had an "Enable hardware acceleration" checkbox in the settings (see http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html) for quite some time, but it is not the same type hardware acceleration being discussed here.

The old "hardware acceleration" only assisted video scaling. The hardware acceleration in the 10.1 betas for both Windows and Mac accelerate the actual decoding.]]>Apr 29th 2010 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
No, it will just allow them to crash more quickly and more efficiently.]]>Apr 28th 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/I dont own a mac, but flash has never crashed my browser on my laptop... Maybe its just a mac thing.]]>Apr 28th 2010 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
I'm typing this in windows 7 and flash crashes firefox daily. ]]>Apr 28th 2010 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Apr 28th 2010 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/Can you mentioned these flash websites so we can try them? I've personally never seen Flash crash in Windows 7.]]>Apr 28th 2010 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/]]>Apr 29th 2010 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
Yeah I don't see comments on the crashability. Bugger.


]]>Apr 29th 2010 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/flash-player-gala-brings-hardware-decoding-support-to-mac-os-x/
No Kwame can not mention these flash sites because they don't exist.

In some past post he alluded to Youtube crashing his Windows machine on a consistent basis, but really? Youtube? Seriously?

Quite frankly, I have a hard time believing that he even owns a Windows based machine, or even knows how to access Youtube for that matter. ]]>Apr 29th 2010 5:37AM