Adobe has announced yet another beta version of the Flash Player, which the company promises to complete the move to hardware acceleration of video played back using the web software with this beta.

It is well aware that the current latest Flash (non-beta) does offload some of the video tasks to the GPU, but the new Stage Video API permits the entire workload to be shifted over, resulting in “just over 0 percent” CPU utilization when playing back 1080p clips. The company’s has also set up some demo vids for you to test this out for yourself after downloading the beta, which is available at the source link.

Windows, Mac and Linux machines are supported right out of the gate, while Microsoft gets an extra bone thrown its way with Internet Explorer 9 hardware acceleration also being implemented in this latest iteration of Flash.

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