I was interested what I can find between differences in VC-1 (user for HD in Silverlight) and H.264 (used for HD in Flash) video standards
Good kudzuworld.com article
Wikipedia
I like H.264 personally, being a standard in HD video on discs (Blu-ray and HD-DVD).
Today I watched new Adobe HD video showcase site… It looks great surely, loading times are acceptable, I can easily say very good…
Only one thing Flash Video is suffering I think is performance on slower CPUs, hopefully Flash player will soon get much faster as more hardware is included in processing. Anyway this is all great, HD is much more interesting then DivX-like quality videos!
EDIT :
Thanks to the reply from John Dowdell from Adobe I am posting updated page on recommended requirements for smooth HD playback in Flash Player
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/
6 responses so far ↓
quetwo // December 6, 2007 at 7:08 pm |
Slower hardware will always have problem with full-screen high-defination video. It dosen’t really matter the codec, platform or application, it just takes a lot of horsepower to do that amount of video. Luckily with the cost of hardware becoming cheaper and cheaper, it is becoming less of a problem, and older hardware is being replaced at a fairly quick rate.
mrsteel // December 6, 2007 at 7:14 pm |
you are true about hardware progress but Flash surely have performance issue that needs to be more and more taken away…
I love Flash but I am objective, and I think VC-1 in Silverlight really needs less cpu resources then H.264 in Flash for smooth playback
I don’t think it’s big advantage it’s just statement which is as far as i Know true for Windows… I don’t know about Mac Silverlight plugin
if anyone can do the comparison that would be very cool…
John Dowdell // December 6, 2007 at 7:38 pm |
Hi, the Player “System Requirements” page has been updated with recommended configurations for intensive video display:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/
These should all be modulated by whatever else the computer is doing at the time (I suspect browser dependencies may still play a role), as well as server load and transmission costs.
jd/adobe
mrsteel // December 6, 2007 at 7:44 pm |
JD thanks on the post…
very usefull information
core duo is really enough for the smooth playback
мультфильмы // December 9, 2007 at 3:19 am |
These are all great!
technologika // December 19, 2007 at 3:48 pm |
We started our Silverlight development with casual games (you can see an example here: http://demo.themsteam.com/videopuzzle/ ) but I’m looking forward to our video projects.