Adobe Beefs Up Flash 9 with H.264, AAC and Hardware Support Adobe's introduced a powerful new component it'll be placing into its Flash Video Player 9, adding support for that red-hot H.264 codec, the video compression routine that's behind Blu-ray, HD DVD and lots of HD goodness all over the videoscape. Adobe's also heightened the efficiency of Flash audio, adding AAC audio compression. Perhaps the most important part of the announcement is the addition of hardware acceleration for playback of all ...

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After some research, I learned that integrating a Flash front-end to a Blogging System is quite a hard task. I was unable to find a ready-made solution or even a tutorial that could lead to solving the equation. I decided to try it myself, from the scratch. I have chosen MovableType and the initial results can be found by clicking at the image above. Em Português?

Adobe is working on client-based software that will run Flash applications separately from a browser, whether online or offline. The company is working on a project code-named Apollo, which will let applications written for Adobe's Flash software run without a Web browser.