[mythtv-users] ESPN3/360 in Myth
Scott D. Davilla
davilla at 4pi.com
Thu Sep 16 22:36:15 UTC 2010
>On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> On Monday, September 06, 2010 11:45:32 am Tyler T wrote:
>>> > We'd all like to see accelerated flash decoding, but I don;t expect it
>>> > anytime soon, if ever.
>>>
>>> It is already supported under Windows, actually. Unfortunately,
>>> if/when Adobe will support it under Linux is anybody's guess.
>>>
>>> "Broadcom hardware decoding of H.264 video in Flash Player 10.1 is
>>> supported on the Broadcom BCM70012 as well as the BCM70015 video
>>> decoding chipsets, found in systems with Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced
>>> Video Accelerator hardware." --
>>> http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/
>>
>> "decoding of H.264 video in Flash Player 10.1" would seem to be
>>simply adding functionality to the Flash player. The
>> Crystal HD can of course decode h264, the problem is flash.
>>
>> It still isn't a hardware decoding for flash, it's just adding
>>something to the player, and more or less admitting that
>> flash stinks.
>
>I have yet to actually try it out myself, but Scott just pointed this
>out for the 10.2 flash player beta Adobe just posted:
>
>http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
>
>Skunkworks:chd-test files davilla$ strings
>/Users/davilla/Downloads/libflashplayer.so | grep libcrystalhd
>libcrystalhd.so
And it works too :)
Both YouTube and Hulu Desktop get accelerated video decode with the
CrystalHD card (both bcm70012 and bcm70015).
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