Flash Player Video: Hardware Acceleration Woes

Useful tidbit to remember: if someone viewing your Flash video complains that it is choppy, it’s probably hardware acceleration. From Adobe:

“Flash Player 10 and later can use your system’s graphics hardware to accelerate video decoding. Flash Player 10.2 and later can also accelerate video presentation on some sites, accelerating all aspects of video playback. If you are experiencing video playback issues in Flash Player, it is possible that your video adapter driver software has incompatibility issues.”

To disable hardware acceleration:

1.       Right-click the Flash movie

2.       Choose Settings from the context menu.

3.       Deselect Enable Hardware Acceleration (on the Display tab), then and click Close.