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Adobe ships Flash Player 10.2 - Way more efficient than WebM

Adobe shipped Flash Player 10.2 earlier this month, and I ran some tests for StreamingMedia.com. Depending upon the browser and platform, it delivers some pretty substantial performance gains, and makes Flash even faster than WebM.  Here's an example for video playing on a MacBook Pro.

                     Firefox Beta 4.0b11

Flash Player 10.1

Flash Player 10.2

Difference

HTML5/ WebM

38%

28%

-26%

32%

If you're a Flash user, or are strongly considering WebM, it's worth checking out. Click here to view the article.


Comments (5)

Geoff Maxwell
Said this on 3-3-2011 At 05:25 am

I followed your test procedures on Windows with Firefox 4 beta 12 playing the 720p WebM video on YouTube. CPU usage averaged out at maybe 4% and I saw it go below 1% a few times. I don't have Flash installed so I don't know what its CPU usage is. Even if it turned out to be faster it would be hard to describe it as "way faster" if all you're talking about is doing better than 4% usage.

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Jan
Said this on 3-3-2011 At 08:14 am
In reply to #1
Interesting, what CPU/graphics card?

Jan
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Geoff Maxwell
Said this on 3-4-2011 At 08:15 am
In reply to #2

Intel Core 2 with an Nvidia 8800 on Windows XP.

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Jan Ozer
Said this on 3-4-2011 At 09:04 am
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Great, thanks for supplying another data point.

Jan
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Jim
Said this on 3-4-2011 At 08:27 pm

I didn't see anywhere in the articles a mention of which particular version of the graphics drivers were used. Without up to date graphics graphics you won't necessarily get the best performance out of Firefox 4. They have a list of blocked graphics drivers here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Grap...

 

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