Microsoft is about to create a competitor of YouTube ! Tim Sneath, Group Manager of the Silverlight development team, aims to create a new experience for users, enabling them to handle 720p video "broadcast-quality clips online"!
Adobe, for its part, is certainly not to look and re-launches with a spectacular new Flash Player update (build 9.0.60.120) , surpassing Microsoft and pointing directly to 1080p !
Multi-threaded video decoding. The VP6 video codec will now run in a separate thread if a multi-core system is detected Which leaves the main thread to do rendering and post processing of the video. With this true 1080p video is now possible on Most modern dual core machines. Also, the responsiveness is improved with this change. The Sorenson codec on the other hand did not get this change for technical reasons.
The latest Flash Player update contains several improvements: enhanced rendering during scaling, support for multi-threaded vector renderer (4 Cores / CPUs), full-screen mode and hardware support for DirectX and OpenGL on Windows on OSX, and much more !
A competition, that between Silverlight and Flash, which is definitely benefits both developers and end users. The progressive approach to high-definition re-opens, however, issues related to DRM (prazialmente already addressed in other posts). The high quality videos, in fact, concerned about the large producers and the studios who fear losing the one hand an opportunity to enter the age of the imported video on the Internet and Net TV, and on the other are terrified by a 'worrying lack of DRM, "only means" capable of ensuring their survival!
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