Second beta Adobe Flash Player 10

19th July 2008

Adobe Systems company has released the second beta version of its updated multimedia add-on to Flash Player 10 Web browsers. The new version of Flash-player, which is codenamed "Astro", contains new filters and effects, new means for producing 3D graphics, and also new mechanism for producing and layout of the text on the screen. In addition to merely technical innovations, the producer emphasizes the great increase in productivity - so, the speed of Mac OS X Platform increased three times compared to previous versions. In addition, Flash Player 10 offers the developers an expanded API interface for painting figures and color management. An important innovation of Flash Player 10 package is the support of outlet of graphics by using graphic accelerator - functions of GPU Compositing and GPU Blitting. Also new Flash Player supports the antialiasing mechanism Saffron 3.1, a new Vector Data Type, dynamic streaming information transfer, RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol), audio codec Speex and dynamic sound generation. They implemented in Beta 2 version the updated interfaces API for Sound procession, Linux WMODE and Video4Linux v2 technologies, the possibility of unloading the content and stop playing ("unloadAndStop"), and also some possibilities of control with the keyboard in full screen mode. New beta version of Flash Player 10 is already available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms, so that the developers and users of the content can check in practice the work of new features and be sure in the compatibility with the materials designed for previous versions of Flash Player. The package Flash Player 10 Beta 2 can be downloaded from Adobe Companyâ€™s site. For additional information visit Softline Companyâ€™s site.