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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. Is this for YouTube? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So is this the corresponding software support behind YouTube's earlier announcement that they'll be serving H.264?

  2. Linux by Trip+Ericson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now let's just hope it doesn't take an additional 6 months for this to make its way into the Linux version. Flash Player 9 for Linux came out some months after Flash Player 9 for Windows/Mac did.

  3. Re:DHTML audio capability? by sremick · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I didn't say DHTML could do everything Flash did. I said "Little of what Flash is used for even requires Flash...". Read my comment again.

    Most sites using Flash are using it for such mundane purposes as doing mouseover/expanding menus and other simple interface mechanics that not only can be done with DHTML, but can be done simpler with broader browser compatibility and faster page-load times (less bytes on the wire). In fact, a site's basic interface and navigation should never require a plugin. Plugins should only offer added content.