1504 A new version of Flash Player 9 Update was released on October 1, 2007. Adobe Flash Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices.

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

This update, codenamed "Moviestar" includes new features, enhancements and bug fixes for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux versions of Flash Player 9, including:

• Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.
• Multi-core support for vector rendering.
• Full screen mode with hardware scaling.
• Flash Player cache for common platform components, such as the Flex framework.
• Support for Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) in the Windows plug-in.

General system requirements for Flash Player 9 are available on Adobe.com.

For the Hardware Scaling feature, the following minimum requirements apply:

Macintosh
1 GHz G4 processor or better
256MB RAM
16MB video RAM
Mac OS X 10.2 or later

Windows
2.0 GHz Pentium-class processor or better
512MB of RAM
32MB video RAM
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, XP Service Pack 2; Vista

Additionally, for high-definition video (720p or 1080p) content encoded with either On2 or H.264, performance will vary depending on the capabilities and configuration of your machine. In general a 2.0 GHz Mac or a 3GHz PC, with one or more processors, will deliver an optimum experience.

For more information, visit:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

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