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Adobe Flash Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, devices, and mobile phones.

Adobe Labs features prerelease versions of the Flash Player 9 Update software. The beta is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early fedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content.

Here are some key features of "Adobe Flash Player":

Strategic
￭ ActionScript 3.0
￭ New virtual machine
￭ New H.264/HE-AAC options
￭ Flash Player Cache
￭ Increased performance
￭ Enhanced security

Innovative
￭ Display API
￭ File upload/download
￭ Enhanced expressiveness
￭ External API
￭ Asynchronous communication model

Universal
￭ Consistent experiences
￭ Express Install
￭ Input Method Editor (IME) support
￭ Lightweight footprint
￭ Accessibility support


Requirements:

￭ PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster processor
￭ Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
￭ 128MB of RAM
￭ Firefox 1.5.0.3 or later, Opera 6, Safari 2.x or later

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Vector printing on Macs works now!
· New Text Engine: Vector Printing isn't currently enabled.
· Mac PPC: Color distortions may appear when applying a Shader. ShaderJob returns unexpected values for some Pixel Bender functions.
· Drawing API: Strokes are not visible on paths drawn with drawTriangles or GraphicsTrianglePaths. The lineShaderStyle is not implemented in Flash Player 10 Beta.
· Context Menu: The new AS3 Clipboard is currently only working for Mac and Windows. It is not yet working for the Unix players.
· Uploading images using Photoshop Express does not work with Flash Player 10 Beta. (1786882) WORKAROUND: Use Flash Player 9.0.124.0.
· A crash when switching between videos of different resolutions has been fixed.
· A new Play Status event when switching between streams now actually happens: NetStream.Play.TransitionComplete.
· Changing NetStream.BufferTime on the subscriber side of P2P connection, causes video to stop and possible crash
· No NetStream onStatus messages received when using NetStream.pause(), NetStream.resume() or NetStream.togglePause() for P2P connection
· Intermittent crashes/hangs when subscribing/unsubscribing multiple times to P2P NetStream.
· peerStreams array includes null streams in some cases.
· Speex audio may deteriorate when computer is overloaded. (222082)
· Peer-to-peer Nellymoser may incur in quality degradation when packets are lost. (222469)
· Soundtransform for Speex does not work in loopback mode
· Video playback issues on PPC Macs have been resolved.