Notable for two reasons. First, H.264 hardware decoding will not be available on OS X. Disappointing, but Adobe claims it’s because Apple doesn’t provide the appropriate APIs. Second, and on a better note, while it doesn’t use hardware decoding, it yet provides significant performance improvements:
Going from roughly 450% down to 190% (or a bit over 10% of total CPU utilization across 16 threads) made full-screen Hulu playable on my machine. In the past I always had to run it in a smaller window, but thanks to Flash 10.1 I don’t have to any longer.
Flash Player 10.1 is scheduled for a release in the first half of next year. Bring it on.
