In addition to the Stage Video, the 10.2 update includes up to 35 percent improvement in performance when using Internet Explorer 9, and now for multidisplay setups allows for full screen players to stay persistent on one display while you continue to browse or perform other tasks on the remaining displays. No other changes will need to be made for the site's infrastructure or video encoding. This allows for very little CPU usage during video playback, with the only requirement being that Web developers will have to update their sites to use the latest APIs for their video players. Adobe Systems has announced a beta release of Flash player 10.2 for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux) that includes a new 'Stage Video' feature that promises high-performance video playback which uses 'just over 0 percent CPU usage,' according to a news release issued today.Īdobe has been developing GPU acceleration in recent builds of Flash player, and the Stage Video feature in the 10.2 release now offloads the whole video rendering pipeline to the GPU, so not only is H.264 decoded in hardware, but other adjustments such as color conversion and scaling are managed by the GPU.
