Adobe released Flash Player with H.264

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Adobe released Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3, more affectionately known as "Moviestar". The new update adds support for high-definition content.

The high-definition support in Flash Player 9 Update 3 follows the release of the new video codec called H.264. This is the same standard employed by by Apple's QuickTime and the video content it sells, and supported as a encoding choice for Blu-ray and HD DVD movies. Flash now supports the High Efficiency AAC audio format.

More importantly, Adobe enabled hardware acceleration support for many graphics cards, when going to full-screen mode. Earlier Flash versions relied heavily on software acceleration, which hindered the player's ability to scale a video in the best quality possible. In addition, full-screen mode is now enabled on Linux platforms for the first time.

Download the Flash Player 9 Update 3 from here.

Read more on working with H.264 in Flash Player here.

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