
We rarely enable new features in security releases but we really wanted to enable such a cool feature.Īdobe released Flash Player 10.1 in June, but did not include hardware acceleration for the Mac OS X platform in that release. You should notice now a nice difference when playing H.264 content on your Mac in terms of CPU usage. Yes, H.264 GPU decoding in Mac OSX is now officially enabled in the Flash Player.

We just pushed a few minutes ago a new version of the Flash Player 10.1.82.76 containing a nice feature that was in beta until now called "Gala".

As noted by project manager Thibault Imbert, Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 for Mac has been updated to enable hardware-accelerated decoding of video content, offering smoother playback, lower system resource usage, and longer battery life for portable devices.
