Friday, December 18, 2009
Flash 10.1 Beta 3 is now available to download. Looking through the release notes, I’m not sure what’s new since they’ve merged old updates into the latest release notes with the latest version, though I’m sure I never saw official support for GMA 500 graphics before. We’ve suspected previously that there’s no reason not to support GMA 500 graphics since it already has H.264 1080p video playback decoding like the GMA 4500M HD. You’ll need at least version 5.2.1.2020 (8.14.10.2020) for Windows 7.
I’ve tried Beta 3 on my UL20A with GMA 4500M HD graphics, but windowed and fullscreen 1080p video is still not smooth and results / CPU usage have no been different for me from older versions.
I also tried Beta 3 on my ASUS Eee PC T91MT with GMA 500 graphics, with the above drivers and 720p works nicely - not smooth but it’s not a slideshow like you get without the Flash 10.1 drivers.
Anyone test out a Broadcom Crystal HD Accelerator card? Is it working yet?
Thanks Ion!
Its better with the Intel GPUs than without it, right? Not all GPUs are equivalent. See http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3678 for somewhat of a score card. More memory (+2Gig) can help out significantly.
When is the official release due out?
I had been testing flash 10.1 with my HP 5310m (su2300 with 4500mhd) a couple times but didnt see any difference. Then today I noticed that my version of flash on my default opera browser was the regular 10.0 version for some reason, but on Explorer its recognizes that I have flash 10.1 installed.
So I tested these new developments with the Avatar 1080p trailer on youtube. On the Opera brower cpu is on avg. 90%, with Explorer it was 35%.
Now I just gotta figure out how to get it flash 10.1 working on Opera 10.5…....
I`ve tried this on my Acer Aspire 751h running Windows XP SP3, 2GB RAM, Intel GMA500 with Flash 10 beta 3 and the latest Intel drivers for Windows XP.
Nothing positive to report, not viewable at all.
Anybody know why it isnt working?
Cheers
Riz
For the 4500MHD, I find Flash 10.1 Beta 1 still works the best. Gave me the smoothest, most watchable experience on 1080P trailers.
Bobby,
The Flash execuatable for non-IE browsers is different, so you need to download a different file for Opera. There should be 2 windows links from the Adobe download website, make sure to install both the plug-in and active-x versions to get everything working.
@Riz
See the release notes:
“For the Atom/Intel® GMA 500 chipset, hardware decode is supported starting with the graphics driver version 5.2.1.2020 (8.14.10.2020) for 32-bit Windows® 7.”