On: Beta Flash Player 'Gala' supports H264 video hardware decoding on Mac OSX 10.6.3

[bshep]

Question is 'Does it actually work?'

And if it does, What's the actual improvement in performance?

EDIT: I'm not being sarcastic, I'm really asking... DOES IT WORK?

[mambodog → bshep]

I'm still getting 60% (of one core) CPU utilisation playing HD youtube videos. Playing HTML5 video tag version of the same video, its only about 20% utilisation. As far as I can remember, 60% is about what it was at before, so I'm not really seeing any improvement.

One of the videos I used to test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ_z-_4fF4Y

I'm using Safari, and also ClickToFlash for switching between Flash and HTML5 HD video on Youtube. Hardware is a 2009 Macbook Pro 2.53ghz.

[not_an_alien → mambodog]

Do you see the white square?

Some of youtube's videos are FLVs, not H264. This is for H264 only.

[mambodog → not_an_alien]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all Youtube HD videos either H264 (.mp4) or H264 in an .flv container? I don't see why a particular container format would prevent hardware decoding of the H264 video stream.