Flash Player 10.1 Released!

[VirtualLarry]

I did some testing with my HTPC, a BE-2400 on a 780G under XP 32-bit, 2GB of RAM.

With Flash 10.1 release version, and CPU oced to 2.875Ghz, 250FSB, and the onboard graphics oced from 500 to 750, full-screen 480P Hulu was very smooth.

I downclocked to 1.1Ghz, and removed the oc on the video chipset, and the flash still played, but you could tell it was skipping frames, and occasionally there would be mpeg-decoding-like graphical glitches. Lip-syncing was actually still good though, you could tell that it was still using hardware accel, it just wasn't keeping the frame rate up.

So hardware accel helps (it was still watchable at the lower clocks), but good CPU speed helps a lot too.

Hmm. I just tried watching the same clip on my laptop, which has a 1.6Ghz TF-20 single-core AMD CPU, and a mobile 780G chipset. It was quite watchable, but compared to my overclocked HTPC, it looked like it was dropping frames a little bit. Not quite as bad as when my HTPC was downclocked to 1.1Ghz, but almost.

 

[Lonyo]

Flash ver. 10.1.53.64 stand alone install files from filehippo :

Non-IE (Mozilla, Chrome, etc.): install_flash_player.exe

IE: install_flash_player_ax.exe

Or...

http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe for anyone who wants non-IE.
http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe for the IE/ActiveX version.

If you want to download them from the Adobe site, where they host them. Rather than using an outside site unnecessarily

 

[manko]

Fullscreen Hack for Flash 10.1 - This is a must for dual screen users. It lets you play fullscreen on one screen and work in the other screen without the video minimizing.

It works for me in Firefox 3.6.3.

 

[Crusty]

Fullscreen Hack for Flash 10.1 - This is a must for dual screen users. It lets you play fullscreen on one screen and work in the other screen without the video minimizing.

It works for me in Firefox 3.6.3.

When 3.6.4 was in Alpha, Flash did this and it was fantastic. In one of the updates to release it broke it again though. I'm guessing they had a regression that caused the desirable behavior due to the change in process architecture of FF and then finally squashed the bug .

I wish they would just make it an option to leave fullscreen videos up even if the window loses focus, which is all that hack does. Just NOP's the code that minimizes the window.

 

[NightFox]

I have integrated graphics HD3300, Cat. 10.5 and flash 10.1 and I'm getting graphical glitches while playing videos on youtube. Is anybody else experiencing this?

 

[Barfo]

WTH...I'm getting some very nasty artifacting when playing certain videos in fullscreen. Can anyone tell me if you can play this video without the artifacting?

 

[AdamK47]

It's the video. Try this one instead: http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/742.../Trailer/E3-2010-CG-Debut-Trailer/Flash-Video

 

[dbcooper1]

Can anyone else reach the univision streams here: http://futbol.univision.com/fifacopamundial/partidos-en-vivo/ ? I can't anymore

tried it just now and it works

 

[Barfo]

It's the video. Try this one instead: http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/742.../Trailer/E3-2010-CG-Debut-Trailer/Flash-Video

That one link you provided worked well. Though I updated my video card drivers and now both work