Flash will support high quality video

Expected yesterday (August 21) Adobe System will officially put into trial Flash Player version with the ability to support high-quality video format.

Accordingly, the new version of Flash Player - codenamed Moviestar - will be added with support for H.264 image standard and HE-AAC audio version 2. This is a component of standard format. MPEG4 is widely used on high quality DVD video optical disc streams.

Mark Randall, Adobe's director of dynamic multimedia strategy, said that once Flash Player supports H.264, more high-quality videos will be released on the web.

Not only will the new technology allow Moviestar to make the most of its hardware acceleration built into PC graphics cards and optimize the power of dual-core processor chips to deliver quality. Best quality for video.

The ability to support high-definition video will also be integrated into the Flash Player 9 version.

Flash is a widely used streaming video standard on the web. A series of websites such as YouTube, Google Video . all use this format to upload videos to the Internet.

Recently, Microsoft has released a new web video standard called Silverlight to compete directly with Adobe's Flash. There have been many well-known video producers signing a new standard application contract with Microsoft. Silverlight supports Windows Media Audio and Video as well as Windows Media VC-1-based video compression formats.

Microsoft has also announced plans to add support for H.264 to Silverlight. However, the company's representative confirmed that this capability will only be added when a customer uses a feedback request.

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