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Beware the new Flash 10.1 beta

November 17th, 2009 | Category: Status | Author: elan

There’s a new beta out of Flash, which adds nice things like hardware H.264 decoding. Unfortunately, it also seems to not play nicely with the Media Server at the moment when using WebKit plug-ins. We’re investigating, but recommend not installing it for the moment. Caveat emptor.

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  1. Jeff November 17th, 2009 10:29 am

    Looks like hardware H.264 decoding is only for Windows.

  2. OwlBoy November 17th, 2009 11:52 am

    A post on TUAW says that it still has improvements for playing back flash video in hardware mode.

    For some things, just downloading the video file too fast can slow things down in flash. Like full speed on at 10 meg connection. But the same video might play fine at 1/4 of that speed.

    At least this is what I experience.

  3. wally007 November 18th, 2009 7:38 am

    I was just gonna ask about hw decoding … really glad Adobe is focusing on optimizing horribly unoptimized Flash for mac , NOT.

  4. WS November 19th, 2009 2:30 pm

    Really? Adobe released another program riddled with possible bugs? Are your sources on this accurate Elan. I just really find it hard to believe Adobe would be so inept at coding, especially when it comes to decade old software…

  5. elan November 19th, 2009 3:35 pm

    @WS, you might enjoy this: http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/

  6. Alex November 23rd, 2009 10:21 am

    When is this going to be fixed in plex??? it may be a bug in 10.1 flash. but I like flash 10.1 and dont want to uninstall it. plex is the only app with issues. ETA on fix?

  7. elan November 23rd, 2009 11:51 am

    @Alex: When the final Flash 10.1 is released (it’s currently just a beta) then we’ll likely look into it. Until then, you’ll have to choose between running a beta release of a product, or using Plex with WebKit content.

  8. mausdesign January 11th, 2010 6:54 am

    Thank You! This solved my problem with not getting video with a number of the plugins on my MacBook Pro running 10.6.2.

    To go back to the earlier version, you have to use the Flash Uninstaller to get rid of the beta:
    http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html

    Then you can install the older “release” version that works great.

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