{"id":1605,"date":"2010-08-13T09:01:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2010-08-13T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:01:37","slug":"adobe-releases-flash-player-with-h-264-decoding-for-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/adobe-releases-flash-player-with-h-264-decoding-for-macs\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Releases Flash Player With H.264 Decoding For Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday Adobe released Flash Player 10.1.82.76 which includes H.264 decoding for Mac&#8217;s. \u00a0What does this mean for the average Mac user? \u00a0In plain terms, H.264 video requires extra computer processing power to decode and playback smoothly on the web. \u00a0Choppy playback and buffering of videos can happen without this extra power. \u00a0On the Windows side of things, Flash has long been able to use a viewer&#8217;s graphic card to harness this extra processing power. \u00a0But it never could on a Mac. \u00a0Until now. \u00a0Kind of.<\/p>\n<p>The newest release of Flash Player enables H.264 encoding on some Mac&#8217;s. \u00a0Specifically, you need Mac OSX 10.6.3 or above and an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce GT 320M, or GeForce GT 330M graphic card. \u00a0Why aren&#8217;t other cards supported? \u00a0Essentially, it&#8217;s because Apple isn&#8217;t exactly jumping through hoops when it comes to Adobe and their efforts to improve Flash performance on Mac&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, if you own a Mac that has the above specs, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/flashplayer10\/gala\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe reports<\/a><\/strong> you can achieve up to a two-thirds reduction in CPU utilization with the update (that means much better performance).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/get.adobe.com\/flashplayer\/otherversions\/\" target=\"_blank\">The update is available here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday Adobe released Flash Player 10.1.82.76 which includes H.264 decoding for Mac&#8217;s. \u00a0What does this mean for the average Mac user? \u00a0In plain terms, H.264 video requires extra computer processing power to decode and playback smoothly on the web. \u00a0Choppy playback and buffering of videos can happen without this extra power. \u00a0On the Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[644,643,645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}