AVChat Software Product Blog

Yesterday Adobe released Flash Player 11.2 but the new Flash Player version seems to have changed something again because our HDFVR product does not finish uploading anymore and it gets stuck as in the screenshot below.

This is something we will look into over the next few days and issue a patch. Hopefully it will be a client side patch (involving replacing the swf) and not a media server patch.

This is the second time the Flash Player team makes a change that breaks app functionality and it’s getting ridiculous. 2 weeks ago they made a small change in Flash Player that caused us 2 weeks of 0% productivity and 100% issuing patches and explaining the issue to customers.

HDFVR Patch for Flash Player 11.2:

With the launching of Flash Player 11.2 we’ve experienced some problems after finishing recordings due to some missing functionality in the new Flash Player (there are some NetStream events that are not sent by this version of Flash Player such as NetStream.Buffer.Empty,NetStream.Record.Stop and NetStream.Unpublish.Success).

We’ve reported the problem to Adobe (here) but in the mean time we’ve compiled a new build that contains a workaround for  this problem.

The new build is 499.

Those who downloaded the build 496 and 498 they can use only the swf files with those form version 499 to resolve this problem.

Hardware accelerated playback of h.264 content in Flash Player 10.1 beta actually works!

Usually when watching any HD video on the Vimeo HD Channel my CPU would  spike to about 40-50% usage. But now, after installing Flash Player 10.1 beta on my laptop, the playback process is handled by my GPU thus leaving the CPU to attend to other tasks.

CPU usage with Flash Player 10.1 beta has dropped to about 10-20% (from 40-50%)!

For now hardware accelerated playback is only available on the Windows version of Flash Player 10.1 beta and only for h.264 video content, but it’s a great step in the right direction.