Adobe has finally launched their new Media Player. There has been alot of buzz about the player and what it can and can’t do. So to keep up with the other bloggers, I am going to deposit my two cents into the blogoshpere.
I visited Adobe.com to download the new Media Player. I could not miss the download as it was taking up the main branding image on the home page. So the download is very quick 1.4mb, this download also forces you to install Adobe Air the platform it was built on. About a 45 sec install on a broadband connection.
Once installed double clicked on the Shortcut on my desk top. A nice clean interface appeared with call outs to prompt me to click on something. After a few clicks I was into the actual video content.
Once into the actual video content the compression quality was very good, even at full screen. The video compression utilizes the VP6 or H.264 codecs. But, some footage was compress from some very sad start quality. A sample of that is inside PBS Great Performances with Eric Clapton. That compression looked as though it came from VHS.
Stay Tuned – I will be diving into the whitepapers next!!