Technical Note TN2267 describes the new API: Via the latest 10.6.3 update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Apple seems to be finally allowing third party developers to access the low level H.264 decoding power of the GPUs within its Macs.Īdobe’s upcoming Flash Player 10.1 only provides hardware acceleration to Windows-based computers because Mac OS X “ does not expose access to the required APIs” and Linux lacks a “developed standard API” for H.264 hardware decoding.Īpple seems to have addressed this issue now with Video Decode Acceleration Framework.
