Adobe has announced that its updated Flash Player 9.0 will support the H.264 video format, an MPEG 4 compression format that can sustain HD video.

Some reports have claimed this could be the catalyst for making high-resolution web video a reality – especially given Flash player is the technology that drives video playback on popular video sharing sites such as YouTube.

Moviestar – as the new version of Flash Player 9 is colloquially known – will be able to play 1080p HD video encoded in a variety of formats. It can also take advantage of hardware acceleration for improved performance – a great feature for smooth full screen playback.

Moviestar is still in beta release and can only be downloaded from the Adobe Labs site.

[Via Wired]

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