Just the other day Adobe released Flash Player 9.0.115.0, and the most notable feature is the new H.264 (HD quality) video support. That is pretty big news because H.264 offers better video quality at lower bitrates, which inevitably makes for a better viewing experience. As Wikipedia points out there are numerous benefits to using H.264 for sharing videos.
One site that has already jumped on the bandwagon for supporting the H.264 is Hulu (review). Right now you have to be invited to join Hulu, but if you’re a member they have an HD gallery currently available. Obviously the quality of the trailers and clips that they have on there right now is better than the current Hulu quality, but the selection is still rather limited. For the inquisitive minds out there here are Hulu’s requirements for the HD quality videos:
- Flash Player 9.0.115.0
- 2.5Mbps Internet connection or greater
- Windows: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz processor (or equivalent), 128MB of RAM, 64MB of VRAM
- Macintosh: Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor, 256MB of RAM, 64MB of VRAM
- Linux: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz processor (or equivalent), 128MB of RAM, 64MB of VRAM
The system requirements to watch the videos are a bit steep, but newer computers from the last few years should have no troubles. Otherwise you might experience some skipping while watching them.
Let us know if you find any other good HD quality content that is taking advantage of the new Flash 9.
Download the New Flash Player 9
H.264 Demo Video
[via Download Squad & NewTeeVee]
Kudos to “S” for the tip!
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Hehehe I got into Hulu today!
You’ll have to try it and let us know what you think!
The video quality is amazing. It was like watching a DVD on my computer. I don’t have an HD player so I can’t compare.
I checked out the Hulu HD videos and they are pretty amazing compared to most streaming video… however, I did notice some skipping when watching the content full screen (my machine does meet the system requirements… btw, who has only 128MB of RAM on a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz system??)
I can’t wait till YouTube goes HD!
Wow, Adobe HD.264, pretty impressive.
Thank you for your info.
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The H.264/AVC standard brings out better video quality than other video standards. keeping the bitrate same we can now expect higher quality videos. This mean that now we will better looking flv videos. Youtube anyone!!
Someone just lost the codec battle, at least on the web.
EXE Installer for IE by Adobe
http://www.adobe.com/go/full_f.....yer_win_ie
dam trying this again
EXE Installer for IE, since the website installer always seems to have issues
http://www.adobe.com/go/full_f.....yer_win_ie
Well let me drop my dimes worths, ha ha ha. First go here and scroll down the page to the bottom you will see a list of Uninstallers for Adobe Flash Player choose you OS version download and Run it.
http://www.adobe.com/support/f.....ninstaller
You can also pull the New Installer version off the same page or just go over here, like I do and get it here:
(For Internet Explorer Only)
http://www.filehippo.com/downl.....player_ie/
(For Firefox and Opera browser type, yuck ha ha ha)
http://www.filehippo.com/downl.....r_firefox/
Then Reboot your machine and the New Installer EXE. should run without any problems, as trying to load the installer over a previous versions install usually fails, do to a “locked file” during install.
Follow the above to the letter and you should not have any problems at all. The above are for All Windows OS only you Mac fans best pull it off of Adobe’s own site.
Bye.
It would be awesome to see YouTube up the quality, but I wonder if they’ll go back and re-encode all of the existing videos. If they do that will be absolutely incredible.