[Papervision3D] Flash Player 9.1

[Jon Bradley]

On Jun 11, 2007, at 3:38 PM, Austin Kottke wrote:

> I think also one of the most major developments is that high  
> definition
> 1080p is now possible.
>
> That is MAJOR as flv was previously only for smaller video size!
>
> This is a revolution in high definition for flash.
>
> There is going to be no reason to use WMV as the video quality of flv
> will be at par as it now uses hardware acceleration
> for video.

FLVs are still software decoded. FLV files at 1080p still require  
some computational power to run. Your average, run of the mill PC is  
going to have problems with them.

Unless you have an HD monitor, playing back FLVs in HD format hurts  
your performance because it needs to scale the content. This is  
definitely where the HW display methods will really help out.

FWIW, a lot of us in the video field that also work with Flash have  
been doing 1080p and 720p FLV content for a long time now (years).  
It's been the speed of the end users system that's always been a  
problem. The HW speedup will help, partially, but HD content is still  
a ways away.

PS - has anyone actually gotten that video demo to run (from Labs)? I  
can only compile and run it if published out of Flash 8 Pro. I can  
play the file file tested from CS3, but it just doesn't go fullscreen.

hmm...