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

[tyler larson]

There is hardware rendering in some of the fullscreen bitmap stuff. I  
dont know the syntax off hand.



On Jan 28, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Alex Thurlow wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> -- 
> Alex Thurlow
> Technical Director
> Blastro Networks
>
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