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"&amp;lt;vc&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Adobe has released a new version of its Flash Player for Mac that officially supports hardware acceleration for H.264 video content.&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nThe update 10.1.82.76 was announced Tuesday by Adobe product manager Thibault Imbert on his &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.bytearray.org/?p=1957\"&amp;gt;blog&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;. The feature, code-named \"Gala,\" had been announced several months prior, but was unavailable with the &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/10/adobe_releases_flash_player_10_1_for_mac.html\"&amp;gt;official release&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; of Flash Player 10.1 for Mac in June. In a break from usual protocol, Adobe enabled the new feature in a security release.\r\n\r\nHardware acceleration in Flash Player 10.1 for Mac is available only for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the following graphics cards: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M.\r\n\r\nAccording to Adobe, a CPU utilization &amp;lt;a href=\"http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/gala/\"&amp;gt;reduction&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; of up to two-thirds is possible when GPU hardware acceleration is active.\r\n\r\nFlash Player for Mac has recently been the subject of controversy. In April, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/29/apples_steve_jobs_publishes_public_thoughts_on_flash_letter.html\"&amp;gt;open letter&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; criticizing Adobe's Flash offerings. In an interview with &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;The Wall Street Journal&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen subsequently &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/29/adobe_ceo_dismisses_steve_jobs_comments_on_flash_as_a_smokescreen.html\"&amp;gt;dismissed&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; Jobs' letter  as a \"smokescreen.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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