Flash Player Beta Offers Hardware Decoding Support for Mac

Adobe has released a Flash Player preview release, code named "Gala", which introduces hardware decoding support for Mac.

Welcome to the Flash Player preview release, code-named “Gala,” which introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3, the most recent release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Gala allows developers to preview Flash Player with hardware acceleration of H.264 video on supported Mac computers equipped with the following GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M. The hardware acceleration functionality in the Gala preview release of Flash Player is expected to be included in an update following the release of Flash Player 10.1.

A list of the Mac models currently supported:
* MacBooks shipped after January 21st, 2009
* Mac Minis shipped after March 3rd, 2009
* MacBook Pros shipped after October 14th, 2008
* iMacs which shipped after the first quarter of 2009


You can download "Gala" using the link below. Keep in mind this is a preview release and will likely contain certain limitations and bugs.

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