I wonder how long it will be until Youtube and its clones roll out this new level of quality.
Adobe Launches “Moviestar” Version of Flash Player – HD Television Quality for Web Video – ReadWriteWeb.com: Adobe today announced the latest version of its near ubiquitous Web video software, Adobe Flash Player 9. It’s codenamed Moviestar, because it includes H.264 standard video support – the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players. In other words, the quality of video has been substantially improved from the previous version of Flash Player 9. Also added to the mix is High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support and “hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback”.
The new Flash Player will be available later today as a beta at Adobe Labs – and the final release is slated to be available in the fall (September – November). The last big update to Flash Player was the launch of Flash 9 in June 2006.
What I really wanted was to Adobe optimize existing flash video. While I can watch divx/xvid/mp4 HD 720p on my living room player, the machine (it’s not very fast…) completely chokes on a youtube video gone fullscreen…
I am in agreement with JoaoPT. In addition, most people’s upload speed is ~384kbs, so uploading an HD video will take forever…
#1, have you considered upgrading your video card? I’m currently considering acquiring a video card that will enable HD video acceleration, such as the PureVideo technology from NVIDIA.
That has to really gobble bandwidth, both for users and for the ISPs.
#3 crappy youtube video needs HD card? Gimme a break!
#3 Just checking out my options, AGP series 6 nvidia board retails for about 55 euros in a local online retailer. That’s the cheapest Purevideo enabled card I can get for my media center (it’s not a media center, it’s an old PC used as a living room player.). Any series 7 retails from 90Eur and up. I guess I could fork 55 eurobucks for an improvement in visuals…
But the principle is all wrong…
#7, If you have an AGP board I wouldn’t recommend a PureVideo card; I would seriously think about upgrading the motherboard to a PCI-E capable unit, then you could think about a PureVIdeo or Avivo (ATI) card.
Here are two guides that provide equipment suggestions depending on your needs:
Buyers’ Guides: Budget and Midrange Configurations
High-End Buyers’ Guide
#8 Yeah, but that’s 55 Ebucks against at least 300 Ebucks…
And the first point I was trying to pass was about efficiency. Why a system that can handle 720p with mpeg 4 encodings chokes so miserably on a quarter screen youtube flash video? Bad software perhaps…
Idea: Has anyone ever took the time to calculate the carbon footprint reductions if all of those million youtube videos had a more optimized player?
Really good video can be streamed very successfully using the right software and hardware. I’m extremely impressed with NetFlix’ video downloads. They start instantly, never hesitate and the video and audio quality is excellent. Looks very close to HD on a 17″ LCD screen. And at the distance I watch it, it’s equal to a 65″ screem at about 12′.
My laptop isn’t new. It’s a three year old Dell SPX with 2.3 Ghz processor and 2 Gig memory.
In other words, the porn clones of youtube will now charge extra if you want to see the HD version of the videos, plain and simple.
Am I the only one that cant find the download on their site?