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Flash Player 9 Gets H.264 Support

Posted by kdawson on from the game-changer dept.

ReadWriteWeb alerts us to the release later today of Flash Player 9 Update 3 Beta 2, codenamed Moviestar, which will support H.264 standard video as well as High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) and other improvements. Adobe engineer Tinic Uro, who works on the Flash Player, has more technical detail on his blog.

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  1. Ads by QuantumPion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sweet, now we can be annoyed by advertisements in HD, at 100x the bandwidth!

    1. Re:Ads by MrNaz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Bad analogies are like slightly overripe peaches.

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      I hate printers.
  2. Re:DHTML audio capability? by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In which user agents can DHTML play a sound whenever the user does something, such as playing a "rustling leaves" sound when the user moves his character next to a tree and presses the use key?
    Since you asked, here's the list:
    - Safari 9
    - Firefox 10
    - Opera 8
    - Internet Explorer 53