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11/17/09
Flash also isn't something that I want people to start making COD 8 in to play on the webpage. It's getting a bit annoying now to find a "little" flash game that I want to play on the laptop away from my main machine, only to find that its just slow as crap.
HD in Flash, waste of time.
Oh btw, flash sites suck, stupid site designers. #flash
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11/18/09
Hulu is another thing I couldn't give a care about either.
By Flash sites I meant sites designed solely with flash, or flash for menus/important parts (and having fallback for flash-less users is a bad excuse).
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You may be suffering from an issue noted in the article.
Short version: Some youtube HD videos have a non-standard width, which then defaults the player to software-based encoding. The Anandtech article has a config workaround for both FF and IE...and Flash and NVidia have stated that they can fix the issue in later releases of either the plugin and/or drivers.
It's Beta. :) #flash
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OpenCL on Snow Leopard will offload processing to the GPU, and if they implemented their decoder using OpenCL they'd get GPU acceleration, not only for H.264 but for for any codec they want to, and without relying on proprietary APIs, as OpenCL is a standard now maintained by the Khronos Group.
Let's rephrase that: "Adobe does not have the manpower or capacity to code to the required APIs".
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That's why we need to stop using flash (or any other proprietary bs), and brace for an open web. But then, it will be another decade before MS implements all the HTML5 goodness in IE... #flash
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Sure, in the long run I'm all for open standards, but in the short term, I'd like flash. If these (controversial) tactics help to make that happen, then I'm sorry OS X users have to suffer. Switch to linux or windows :) #flash
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YouTube HD was playable before, so no difference there other than lower CPU usage.
Unfortunately, it seems that the scaling quality is completely messed up (it seems to be using nearest-neighbor rather than resampling), which is lame. Hopefully a Flash update or an Intel driver update will fix this. #flash
11/17/09
I spend a lot of time coding for Flash, but I'm looking forward to replacing it in the future with HTML5. #flash
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Maybe update FF. #flash
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... except that I don't see MS implementing HTML5 in IE in the next decade. Maybe, just maybe, this time people will switch to other browsers instead of hampering the advancement of the web. #flash
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When your done loading it up (make sure to unistall your current versions of Flash first) use this video to see how much faster it really is.
11/17/09
The PureVideo2 implementation from Adobe is NOT as fast as CoreAVC's. Testing it on an older PC, a P4 at 3 Ghz (so we can see the speed difference more clearly), CoreAVC manages to playback 1080/30p video with just 15% CPU utilization, but Flash needs about 70%-90%.
For 720p video, it seems to be caching some stuff in the beginning and so it uses about 70%-80% in the beginning, but after it's done with that, it goes down to about 20%.
Vimeo.com on the other hand, has problems with Flash 10.1. Flash crashes when exiting from full screen (reproducible here), videos don't start to play when you press "play" (you will have to re-press play), if you press in the timeline to go to a different time in the video it won't play immediately (even if it's cashed), and in *some* h.264 Vimeo re-encodings (like for one of my videos, but not all), playing the video accelerated is *slower* than in just software (reproducible behavior for the specific video)! These problems didn't exist with Flash 10.0.32.
GeForce 8600 GTS here, XP SP3 32bit, 3 GB RAM, with 186.18 nVidia drivers. If any interested Adobe engineer is reading this, I can provide more details.
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I just installed 10.1 and it's as if I just got sight for the very first time. No stuttering. No dropped frames. Audio and video in sync. Am I dreaming? This can't be real. Somebody pinch me. #flash
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@Nathan Obbards: Well, it's all rumors at this point, but perhaps they refer to The Flash content. I don't imagine that turning out well coming from Adobe though. #flash
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Flash was once used as a convenience, but the state of HTML has long since caught up.
You don't have to stream video in a custom made flash video player. Many would prefer that you didn't. At least then, I'd have some hope of having hardware accelerated videos on my Linux box. #flash
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11/02/09
Seems kinda silly as a daily warning system. People normally have shit to do in certain neighborhoods, so they can't just say, "Oh, air quality's bad in that area today, I guess I won't go," or, "Hey, air quality's bitchin' uptown, think I'll check that out!" Weekends would be another matter, I guess. #livinglight
11/02/09
If anyone would like to let me know how to do the laser etching and such to make glass light up like that, please let me know, DIY FTW! :D #livinglight
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They can laser etch any vector or raster image into anything from plate steel to blue jeans. They can also do glass. Oh, and if anyone is interested they told me they can probably do iPhones (I was specifically asking about first gen, not sure how the plastic would hold up).
After you etch the glass, just end-light it with a LED strip.