Flash 10.2 "34 times more effecient"

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"CPU usage during video has been a particular sore spot with Flash, in particular with Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs lambasting Flash video as battery-sucking software."

Flash Player can play even higher quality video while using dramatically less processing power, giving users a better experience, greater performance, and longer battery life. In our testing across supported systems, we've found it's up to 34 times more efficient.

Put another way, Flash Player using Stage Video can effortlessly play beautiful 1080p HD video with just 1 to 15 percent CPU usage on a common Mac or Windows computer...Many millions of additional PCs, from Netbooks to desktops, can now become slick HD home theaters on the Web.

Web developers need to update their software to use the new Stage Video interface; Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow offers a tutorial for those interested in how to do so. Google already has for its Flash-based player at YouTube, Adobe said.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20031167-264.html

The Flash Player 10.2 plug-in can be downloaded from Adobe's download site, but things are somewhat different for users of Google's Chrome browser. Google builds Flash Player directly into Chrome and it issued a new stable version 9.0.597.94 and developer version 10.0.648.45 with Flash Player 10.2; the new versions download automatically and are installed upon restarting the browser.

http://get2.adobe.com/flashplayer/

 

[Dinnesch]

Tried it on my ancient laptop(which I luckily don't need anymore), and youtube doesn't work any better.

 

[Warped]

I'll wait for the official release. Also Firefox gets a new update shortly which is nice because all they focused on was efficiency this time around

 

[Unfocused]

Sounds good.

I'll wait for the official release. Also Firefox gets a new update shortly which is nice because all they focused on was efficiency this time around

Sweet, I hope it actually improves performance, because I've considered switching to Chrome a few times. Right now I've tried watching the first gameplay video for LA Noire in 720p and the framerate was poor, so I opened the video in Chrome and the framerate improved (though it still wasn't perfect).

 

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The latest version of Chrome should automatically incorporate Flash 10.2 in Youtube (Youtube is the only one they stated has been updated for Flash 10.2). So have you tried catching LA Noire at 720p on Youtube (in Chrome). Let us know.