View and play Flash media on your Mac
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.
Main features of Adobe Flash Player:
ActionScript 3.0
New virtual machine
New H.264/HE-AAC options
Flash Player Cache
Increased performance
Enhanced security
Display API
File upload/download
Enhanced expressiveness
External API
Asynchronous communication model
Consistent experiences
Express Install
Input Method Editor (IME) support
Lightweight footprint
Accessibility support
Requirements of Adobe Flash Player:
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:
Many Linux camera issues have been fixed. Please report any additional issues you encounter.
Linux full-screen optimizations have been made. Please report any additional issues you encounter.
startDrag() does not work when movie clip is 3D. (216415)
LiveCycle WorkSpace cannot log in using Flash Player 10 Beta. (223394) WORKAROUND: Use Flash Player 9.0.124.0.
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.
Linux: Shader Jobs may return NaN instead of an expected Number value.
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.
Disconnect and re-connect network on Mac publisher causes sending garbled audio with USB audio devices.
Speex audio may deteriorate when computer is overloaded.
Peer-to-peer Nellymoser may incur in quality degradation when packets are lost.
Soundtransform for Speex does not work in loopback mode.
Video playback issues on PPC Macs have been resolved.