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Adobe, NVidia working to improve Flash Player performance
Owners of newer netbooks featuring NVidia's upcoming Tegra system-on-a-chip or Broadcom's Crystal HD will be glad to hear that Adobe is teaming up with NVidia to produce a version of the Flash player tuned for netbooks and MIDs. The goal is to provide full h.264-powered HD video to more mobile devices.
Another result of the partnership: Flash will likely see significant performance gains on other NVidia chipsets as well. At last you'll be able to put your multi-GPU SLI configuration to good use while enjoying your favorite Time Wasters!
[ via ZDNet ]
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TehNomad said 10:24PM on 6-02-2009
Could this potentially mean that Flash games might be able to closely emulate real DirectX/OpenGL 3D games in the near future?
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hazard said 8:26AM on 6-03-2009
It already does with 3D engines like Sharikura and Papervision
http://temp.roxik.com/datas/physics
http://www.papervision3d.org
http://blog.papervision3d.org/category/demos
hazard said 8:33AM on 6-03-2009
Ahh .. limited to 3 urls per post
Nonetheless, this cool little Flash thing deserves a post of it's own.
http://ecodazoo.com
It's also made by Masayuki Kido who developed the Sharikura engine.
Josh said 2:16AM on 6-03-2009
Could this mean that my MacBook doesn't heat up another 30F each time I watch a video? Please say yes. Please.
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Evenio said 9:53AM on 6-03-2009
Nope, sorry. Assuming your MacBook runs OS X, Adobe will continue to cripple Flash Player on it. They've got a juvenile pissing match with Apple to uphold, y'know.
hazard said 8:17AM on 6-03-2009
This is great news. Unfortunately won't be available until first half of next year. I would hope this support would be rolled into NVidia's Desktop chips too.
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Lee Mathews said 8:18AM on 6-03-2009
"Flash will likely see significant performance gains on other NVidia chipsets as well." i.e. desktops, laptops with NVidia GPUs
DeoWulf said 9:29PM on 6-03-2009
Hm... could this mean good things for the Zune HD and Flash support?
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