{"id":12456,"date":"2007-08-22T20:30:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/08\/flash-video-goes-high-def.html"},"modified":"2007-08-22T20:30:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T20:30:29","slug":"flash_video_goes_high_def","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/flash_video_goes_high_def\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash video goes high-def"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/bw\/070821\/20070820006124.html?.v=1\">Great news from the Flash team<\/a>: the latest version of the Flash Player (<a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/downloads\/flashplayer9.html\">available now<\/a> in beta form) will support the H.264 video codec, paving the way for hardware-accelerated, full-screen high-definition movies on the Web.&#160; Adobe platform evangelist Ryan Stewart hits <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.digitalbackcountry.com\/?p=1000\">the highlights<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Does the addition of H.264 mean Flash Player will support HD?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes, Flash Player supports 480p, 720p and 1080p content encoded with either On2 or H.264. Performance will vary depending on the capabilities and configuration of your machine. In general a 2.0 GHz Mac or a 3GHz PC, with one or more processors, will deliver an optimum experience.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Will Flash Player 9 Update 3 support non-FLV files?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes, with this update, Flash Player will also support MPEG-4 standard container files [&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> So basically you can play full, hardware-accelerated 1080p Quicktime videos inside of the updated Flash Player. <strong>Welcome to the next generation of web video<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.&#160; I knew these changes were in the works, but I really didn&#8217;t expect them to arrive so quickly.  Flash Player engineer Tinic Uro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaourantin.net\/2007\/08\/what-just-happened-to-video-on-web_20.html\">has the details<\/a>, while Aral Balkan has a <a href=\"http:\/\/aralbalkan.com\/1012\">full FAQ<\/a>.  All in all, this is a great step forward for Flash developers, Flash video-creating apps (including Photoshop Extended), and Flash video watchers (y&#8217;know&#8211;just about everyone ever ;-)). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news from the Flash team: the latest version of the Flash Player (available now in beta form) will support the H.264 video codec, paving the way for hardware-accelerated, full-screen high-definition movies on the Web.&#160; Adobe platform evangelist Ryan Stewart hits the highlights: Does the addition of H.264 mean Flash Player will support HD? Yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}