[osflash] hardware acceleration of HD h.264 video?

[Alex Thurlow]

Apologies in advance, as this isn't necessarily about OS Flash, but this 
is the only list I know to get this question answered.

I have been exploring the new h.264 support in the most recent flash 
player to deliver HD content to users.  We hadn't done HD yet since 
playing vp6 content did not appear to use the client machine's graphics 
processor for the video.  I thought with h.264, they would start doing 
this, but it appears that it's still all in software.  I've tried 
delivering HD video through flash, and any machine that's not super new 
immediately hits 100% CPU and starts dropping frames. 

Does anyone here have any tips on delivering HD?  I'd like to be able to 
deliver a 1080i  or 720p stream at 1000 or 1500kbps through the flash 
player. 


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Alex Thurlow
Technical Director
Blastro Networks

email: alex at blastro.com
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