Adobe Flash Player 10.2 Beta

Anyone able to say whether this copes with iPlayer HD on a netbook with ION (HP 311c) .... with 10.1 there's some issue with the header info that the BBC send on iPlayer now causing 10.1 to decide it cannot use any GPU assist with the obvious result of ~1fps video decode! Found a "fix" which I installed last night where someone had hacked the 10.1 DLL to bypass part of the header decode check. Is this fixed OOTB in 10.2 or do I need to wait for someone to do a similar "fix" for that?
 
I will let you know tonight as I have an MSI mediaPC STB running on ION and Win7 so stay tuned!

I suspect it will because h.264 videos via DXVA are really smooth if nothing else is taxing the Atoms in the BG and my own desktop findings for 10.2 (latest) show a better GPU utilisation as well for FlashHD on iPlayerHD.
 
Khaaan! said:
I will let you know tonight as I have an MSI mediaPC STB running on ION and Win7 so stay tuned!

I suspect it will because h.264 videos via DXVA are really smooth if nothing else is taxing the Atoms in the BG and my own desktop findings for 10.2 (latest) show a better GPU utilisation as well for FlashHD on iPlayerHD.
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Any update? The problem, from what I gather. with iplayer in 10.1 is that somewhere along the line combination of the BBC changing the header info in their streams and Adobe tightening the decision on whether a stream can be decoded with GPU assist means that the released version of 10.1 doesn't offload decode from iplayer to the GPU (though at beta stage it apparently did). As it seems to be a combination of changes at both ends then it seems that Adobe and BBC may both be thinking its the others problem!

With a bit og googling I found someone who'd provided a hacked DLL that forces GPU-assist so that with that iplayer HD streams now seem to play ok on by 311 with only ~30% CPU usage ... without the hack its 100% and 1fps as it tried to do all the decode on the atom!

So, the problem is not whethe 10.2 can decode a stream of this definition ... its whether 10.2 recognizes iplayer streams as something it can send to the GPU.
 
Ah,

I forgot!

Will check tonight first thing when I get home!

Normal iPlayer is defo fine, just need to confirm iPlayer HD.
 
iplayers hd streams still chew up cpu with 10.2, all other hd videos I've used over the past week are fine.
 
Ok just checked and as expected, iPlayerHD is a complete no go!

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The CPU on the media PC is an Atom C330 and it has the ION chipset.

Any other FlashHD site is fine though.
 
Khaaan! said:
Ok just checked and as expected, iPlayerHD is a complete no go!

The CPU on the media PC is an Atom C330 and it has the ION chipset.

Any other FlashHD site is fine though.
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Thanks ... iPlayerHD is ok in 10.1 with a hacked DLL ... can find details in this thread

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/304807-How-to-remove-annoying-Press-Esc-to-message-in-Flash-Video?p=1999854

Problem definitely seems to be at the BBC end ... but from what I gather they claim there's nothing wrong!
 
BBC probably don't care about lower end machines heh but saying that, ION is completely fine for H.264 1080p via every other means so something is up with iPlayer!
 
I recently read on on of the Adobe developer forums that its going to take time for web developers to update their preexsiting code to take advantage of the benefits brought in Flash 10.2.

Thats why some of you are saying you dont see any difference between 10.1 and 10.2.
 
Why does the GPU acceleration never happen for me? My Dell 1555 has a Radeon 4570 gpu, so I assume it should be able to take advantage of GPU acceleration.

I tried going on Youtube in IE9 (not 64bit version), played a 720p video, but the CPU usage is still 40%+ all the time, even if it switch the Flash option for "Hardware Acceleration" it makes no difference.

WMP plays HD videos with very little CPU usage, so the GPU is working in that respect. Just doesn't seem to make a difference on Youtube.
 
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