I'm surprised video rendering takes ANY cpu cycles - with all the video card horsepower available. What is it doing if not codec tasks? Hm.
Nothing actually. Flash 10.1 beta will offload some h264 processing to compatible video cards, but only on Windows and that’s not the released version. Currently it uses the CPU for all decoding.
i wish more engineers from big companies would do public interviews like that (either on hn or reddit). i'm sure there is a lot of quality feedback to be had from a collective of somewhat-more-technically-inclined users than what gets filed as bug reports. especially for companies like google who don't have public bug filing systems for many of their services.
I think higher level discussions are more suited to that format than globs of unstructured bug reports :-)