Adobe Media Player Beta now available

By Scott McNulty

Adobe has released a beta of their Adobe Media Player. This media player is aimed at helping you consume, and find, online video. The app requires the AIR runtime on your Mac, though the install is painless.

Adobe is touting this as a lightweight, cross platform video player though if the performance on my MacBook (2 Ghz Core Duo, 2 gigs of RAM) is any indication this player is pretty much dead on arrival. The transitions are choppy, the response time is laggy, and as such the application is useless on my Mac (your mileage may vary). Let's hope this gets cleared up before this app leaves beta, but until then I'll continue using Miro for my video blog consuming.

You can download a copy of the beta from Adobe Labs, and it is free.

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