Adobe Media Player Beta now available

Why does the performance surprise you? This is the company that, with Flash now up to version 10 or whatever it is, is still unable to get even close to reasonable performance on video playback --- but is too damn dogmatic to admit their incompetence and route the video playback through QuickTime.

Almost everything Adobe makes nowadays is total crap. It's as if they only really care about their photoshop team (and maybe indesign) and half-ass everything else just because they can. Almost like Microsoft...

How about getting a Flash player that doesn't make my MacBook sound like a jet engine when I'm watching Youtube?

Mark Pilgrim has it right, just another failure of a self contained system - model arguably works for desktop, but always is a failure for the internet:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/05/02/silly-season

Miro - what a cool app. How come I have never heard of it on TUAW ? The Adobe video player is terrible, but Miro seem great.

Oh my God, I hate AIR. I got introduced to it via Pownce, and it's such a pain. It's unstable, slow, and completely un-Mac-like. Cmd+W doesn't close the window, and if you do close the window, you're unable to retrieve it and the program just sits in the Dock until you force-quit it (that's right, without the window, a normal quit isn't possible). It doesn't chew up a huge amount of system resources, but everything else about it sucks.

Wake me when something better comes along (oh, wait, sorry, it has: Java. Say what you want about Java, but at least it's better than AIR!)

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Scott, thanks for the Miro link!!! This app is awesome. It totally stole Adobe's thunder!

Adobe will no doubt end up rolling the AIR into Flash 10 to make it ubiquitous, so perhaps they should concentrate on making the Flash runtime itself actually usable on a Mac. I have Java apps that run more efficiently.

The interface seems a little weird to me, its cool looking, it just doesn't seem to work well and intuitively. It also requires AIR, which could be a pain. It also requires a lot of RAM it seems, it slows down my computer which is 2GB RAM with almost nothing else open! So I must agree with Niklas, it is an YAFAP.