[Flashcoders] Q:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash

2007-08-21 Thread moveup
Great news! http://www.kaourantin.net/2007/08/what-just-happened-to-video-on-web_20.html I was just wondering what impact if any this will have on the future of 3d in Flash. One of the drawbacks of 3d in Flash (Sandy , PV3D) has been the lack of hardware acceleration . Any thoughts? [e]

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash

2007-08-21 Thread Ian Thomas
Um... that is a really good announcement. But I don't understand your question's relevance - I don't see any announcement about hardware acceleration or 3D? Don't mistake MPEG4 video support for MPEG4 multimedia/3D support. Ian On 8/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash

2007-08-21 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 21, 2007, at 9:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering what impact if any this will have on the future of 3d in Flash. Well, all the video updates will have zero effect. Those have nothing to do with 3d. This is basically the inclusion of the MainConcept MPEG4

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash

2007-08-21 Thread eric e. dolecki
The updated support will allow Flash Player to take advantage of hardware acceleration provided in computer video cards On 8/21/07, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um... that is a really good announcement. But I don't understand your question's relevance - I don't see any announcement

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash

2007-08-21 Thread Paul Venton
In the context of video acceleration since the hardware, of not available then software, will be decoding and displaying the video. There's no mention of hardware being used to accelerate non video playback. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash

2007-08-21 Thread Ian Thomas
Eric - firstly, what's that quote from? I can't find it on either Tinic's site or the Yahoo site he links to. Secondly, the Adobe press announcement seems quite clear: as well as hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback. That's hardware acceleration _for the playback

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash

2007-08-21 Thread eric e. dolecki
Ahh true. H.264 support for playback with the aid of video cards. Wondering if BitmapData stuff will see any improvement along with video (pushing pixels to screen with less software). I would guess yes. If so, Papervision3D use bitmap data. - eric On 8/21/07, Paul Venton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash

2007-08-21 Thread eric e. dolecki
Saw that quote in an Apple Dev forum, so it could be wrong. I'll take this news at face value for now then - it kicks ASS. - eric On 8/21/07, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric - firstly, what's that quote from? I can't find it on either Tinic's site or the Yahoo site he links to.