Flash Player 10 Beta on Labs!
Last night we posted the first public beta of Flash Player 10 to the labs site. This new version includes some highly anticipated features like native 3D support and the ability to read and write local files without having to round-trip to the server. Another major new feature is the support for Pixel Bender shaders (formally Hydra). Currently there is no way to author FP 10 SWFs but you can at least start experiencing some of the new features. Check out the cool demo created by Grant Skinner which shows off some of the new features.
I did some work with the Flash team to create a Pixel Bender viewer tool. This allows you to import local filters created with the Pixel Bender Toolkit and view them on different types of content like images, vectors, and video. You can also import multiple filters to see there effects when stacked. Grab some filters and try it out.
I’ll be posting some tutorials over the next week to help get people started on using the new features so stay tuned!
Lee
Great news, but what’s up with the flash player uninstaller for mac, 39 mb??!!!
thanks for sharing lee, maybe its the beta release, but my computer just crashes every time i am in the 3d demo and want to skip to another one,
things are looking very cool cant wait to be able to play with it, muahahaha!
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Just a quick question, how do I save a filter to upload it to the Pixel Blender viewer tool?
Thanks Lee, i wait the tutorials.!! Thanks for sharing!! Best Regards!!
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can you give me some kind advices ?
i think the the clients’ hardware requirement is really too high for Pixel Blender …
Is it me or is the scale9Grid bugged in Flash Player 10? Some of my websites are displaying some weird glitches…. when I disable the scale9Grid, it looks normal again (except for the resizing parts / rounded corners).
Will Flash Player 10 eliminate the need for Papervision3d?
Any chance we’ll see a 64 bit version this time round?
* not holding my breath *
I saw pretty amazing features, very well enhancements. Hope to see soon the final release
Hi,
I have problems with the files transfer.
1/ I can’t download the sources from the demo.
The “Save to” window open, but that’s it.
2/ The same way, I can select the file, but I can’t seem to upload the filters on the pixel blender exemple.
I couldn’t find any new security option, I’m running on windows XP and Firefox.
Am I the only one having troubles?
Hello Lee,
Flash Player 10 is great! However, I have a little complain about crossdomain policy file…
We have an online service called CyberLink Live, which currently have about 150,000 registered users. It allows our users to access their video, audio, photo and document files stored on their Home computers anywhere, anytime and even allow them to watch TV programs remotely if they have TV tuner card installed.
Our users have to install a little program, which contains crossdomain policy file, on their Home PC first, then, if they are away from home and want to watch their favorite programs, they can go to our web sit, which is built entirely in Flash, select the channel they like and our service will do the TV streaming for them.
The Flash Player 9.0.124 security update earlier caused our users not able to access their own content and wrote us some complaint letters…
Since the policy file is on users’ computers, we have no way to change it. Even though we have released a new version, which contains a new crossdomain policy file, in April; but you know, people don’t usually upgrade their software as fast as we expected…and the security update (9.0.124) this time made the backward compatibility of our service totally impossible…
The reason of having a policy file is understandable, but I would like to inform Adobe that there are people using Flash Platform making something that is a bit different from a regular web application. When Adobe makes security updates next time, please kindly consider applications or services like ours. I know you had announced this update (9.0.124) about a month earlier before it actually published, but this is not about time in this case.
If you have a chance talking to player team, please kindly bring our concern to them. We will be making our next release in Flex and will support Flash Platform as long as we can.
By the way, there is another company called Orb doing similar to what we do, but they choose AJAX to build their web front-end. It is not as pretty as Flash Platform though.
I look forward to running Flash Player 10 on OpenSolaris in the future!