Existing H.264 video content on the Web will benefit from Stage Video on mobile platforms without any changes to the content. Stage Video support for mobile devices will be available on Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” and BlackBerry Tablet OS. Test results show up to 80 percent CPU savings when playing back video in 1080p on Windows® and Mac OS. Stage Video decreases processor and memory usage while enabling higher frame rates and improved video quality.

The new release includes support for innovative new features including Stage Video, which delivers much improved video performance through optimizing hardware acceleration on mobile devices, desktops and TVs. With the slew of Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphones getting released and announced at Mobile World Congress, you may want to hold off on purchasing those handsets as Adobe has recently said that its Flash 10.2 plugin will only be compatible with Android 3.0, also known as Honeycomb.Īccording to the company, Google had to make some changes to the underlying OS to allow Flash 10.2 to take advantage of the hardware, which suggests that hardware acceleration is present with Adobe Flash 10.2 with Android Honeycomb.

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