Adobe Labs has posted a preview release of the next version of Flash, which will take advantage of Apple’s new hardware decoding in Snow Leopard. Here’s the scoop straight from Adobe:
Gala allows developers to preview Flash Player with hardware acceleration of H.264 video on supported Mac computers equipped with the following GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M. The hardware acceleration functionality in the Gala preview release of Flash Player is expected to be included in an update following the release of Flash Player 10.1.
Don’t miss this passive-aggressive jewel:
Approximately 75 percent of online videos viewed worldwide are delivered using Flash technology. The H.264 video codec supported by Flash Player provides excellent quality, but without hardware acceleration, H.264 requires a great deal of CPU processing power to decode