Flash Player 10.1 first impression

Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 12:14 AM
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I plugged the new Flash Player 10.1 beta into my home theater PC this afternoon. You can find the beta at http://labs.adobe.com.

My #1 impression: a significant reduction in tearing using Hulu.

The big thing this release is supposed to offer is offloading H.264 to the GPU. The beta offers this feature to a limited set of video cards (mostly ATi Radeons 4xxx and nVidia GeForces 8xxx and above).

I'm running an ATi Radeon 4650 with 1 Gb DDR3 RAM in my HTPC. It has a slightly overlocked Wolfdale Pentium Dual Core running at 3.1 GHz (stock 2.8) with 2 Gb RAM running Windows 7 Ultimate. It is a capable performer, handling upsampling DVDs to near Blu-Ray quality. It doesn't bat an eyelash at the big ugly of the HD world: 1080i full bandwith OTA ATSC MPEG-2 (essentially, CBS OO stations).

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Wonder where to start with your web design business?

This blog follows along with my efforts to build and grow a website design business, Pro Content and Design.

The goal of this blog is to fill in blanks that may be empty as you get your business rolling.

This blog, particularly the source code section, is not intended for beginners. If you are not comfortable with databases, Ajax, DOM objects and other advanced methods, I strongly suggest you go take a look over at W3 Schools before even reading -- let alone tinkering with -- any of the code here.

I hope this blog has some value to web designers as they attempt to get their businesses going.

Good luck, and happy reading.

Thank you,
John Crawford
Pro Content and Design