Stage Video
The Stage Video API in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR enables beautiful, high-performance video playback across platforms, including TVs. Stage Video helps websites deliver best-in-class video across screens and browsers by enabling access to hardware acceleration of the entire video pipeline. Developers can take advantage of this new model to deliver improved playback quality while reducing processor usage by up to 85 percent. This enhanced performance builds on the benefits of H.264 hardware accelerated decoding introduced in Flash Player 10.1.
Stage Video demos for Flash Player |
Big Buck Bunny
This simple example of Stage Video uses the sample code described in Thibault Imbert's developer article, Getting started with Stage Video.
Enhanced video playback on tens of thousands of websites
Brightcove players found across the web deliver efficient, beautiful video playback using Stage Video hardware acceleration.
Speed (IMAX) HD 1080p Trailer
This YouTube player demo utilizes Stage Video hardware acceleration.
HD video for the masses
Coming soon.
Advantages of Stage Video |
Stage Video works with all of the existing video on the web viewed in Flash Player, allowing websites to continue to take advantage of its other benefits for video playback, including advanced streaming controls for smoother, high-quality playback, DVR-like playback control, adaptive bitrate management, content protection, consistency, and reach across browsers and over one billion computers, mobile devices, and TVs. Adobe AIR also supports Stage Video on TVs and on mobile devices.
Flash Player enables beautiful, rich experiences beyond video playback, and developers and designers can composite dynamic content on top of video to create immersive, interactive experiences. Websites will benefit from Stage Video by simply updating their video player SWF—no changes to existing video libraries or delivery infrastructure are required.
Articles |
Getting started with Stage Video
Thibault Imbert (Feb 08, 2011)
Render video on devices by taking advantage of the underlying video hardware and by using the StageVideo API in Flash Player.
Flash Player 10.2 now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Tom Nguyen (Feb 08, 2011)
Find out about the latest release: Stage Video, custom native mouse cursors, multiple-monitor full-screen support, enhanced subpixel rendering, and more.
Using Stage Video with OSMF and Strobe Media Playback
Andrian Cucu (Feb 18, 2011)
Learn about Stage Video support in OSMF and Strobe Media Playback, and how to use them to publish video players that deliver high-performance video playback.
