After long years of putting up with proprietary video encoding solutions for Flash, Adobe just released a public beta of the next Flash Player update with MPEG-4 and AAC support.
Tinic Uro’s blog states that Flash will be able to load .mp4, .m4v, .m4a, .mov and .3gp files that are encoded with a H.264 video codec (no luck with XviD or DivX, though, boys and girls…) using Baseline, Main, High (BluRay, HD-DVD) or High 10 profile and AAC audio codec using MAIN, LC or SBR profile. Yes, HE-AAC is supported! And 3GPP timed text and image tracks too.
So let me get this straight. Flash will be able to stream high definition video and audio encoded using open-source tools like libfaad, x264 and MP4Box? Hell yeah! You can even play files with multi-channel audio (although it will be downsampled to 44.1 kHz stereo until they replace that horrible audio engine).
Don’t be shy, jump out from your cubicle and do a funny dance!
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