adobe-flash-playerIt’s supposed to be top-secret, but it seems a german site (notebookjournal.de) has goofed up and let it slip: a GPU-accelerated Flash player made with help from NVidia.

The below video compares playback of a 720p Flash trailer for 2009’s Star Trek movie on an Atom-based netbook with integrated Intel graphics and an NVIDIA ION-based netbook with GeForce 9400M graphics. The difference is like night and day – one stutters along, whilst the other provides silky-smooth video.

Though we can’t confirm when end users will be getting their hands on the GPU-accelerated Flash player, we can reveal that NVIDIA will be making an official announcement on October 5th.

What’s useful is that Flash acceleration is supported on the majority of NVIDIA’s GPUs – including Tegra, resulting in the possibility of high-def Flash video on portable handhelds such as Microsoft’s Zune HD and various upcoming smartphones.

The video is, of course, missing now.  With the announcement a mere 5 days away tho we might see more leaking out over the next few days.

Update: See the video after the break, found by Paul Adams on AOL.

via HEXUS.net – News :: NVIDIA demos GPU-accelerated Flash video : Page – 1/1.


Via AOL Video