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Adobe Announces Flash Player 9 Update

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Flash Player 9 Update 3(version number 9.0.115.0), previously code named Moviestar.

Adobe Flash Player 9 now includes H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio capabilities. The latest update also features hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced, full-screen video playback for high-resolution viewing across major operating systems and browsers.

Tinic Uro has a condensed list of bugs which have been fixed since the last release version - 9.0.64.0.

Here is a quick list of the new/enhanced features;

  • New audio/video options with H.264/HE-AAC codec support

  • Improved Performance through multi-core support for rendering, hardware scaling in full-screen, multi-threaded video decoding, a new algorithm for image scaling, and the Flash Player cache for local caching of common platform components to reduce SWF sizes and app loading times

  • Support for full-screen mode for Linux

  • MSAA Accessibility support for the plugin

  • Mac OS X Leopard support

  • And bug fixes

You can download the Flash Player Datasheet (PDF) from Adobe. Visit and Download the new Flash Player.

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