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ADOBE FLASH PLAYER Adobe Flash Player (labeled Shockwave Flash in Internet Explorer and Firefox) is computer software for using content created on the Adobe Flash platform, including viewing multimedia contents, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video. Flash Player can run from a web browser as a browser plug-in or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player was created by Macromedia and has been developed and distributed by Adobe Systems since Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005. Flash Player is distributed as freeware.

ADOBE FLASH PLAYER Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Flash Builder or by third party tools such as Flash. Develop. Flash Player supports vector graphics, 3 D graphics, embedded audio, video and raster graphics, and a scripting language called Action. Script is based on ECMAScript (similar to Java. Script) and supports object-oriented code. Flash Player is distributed free of charge and its plug-in versions are available for every major web browser and operating system. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 8 and later, and Microsoft Edge come bundled with a sandboxed Adobe Flash plug-in.

ADOBE FLASH PLAYER Flash Player once had a large user base, and was a common format for web games, animations, and graphical user interface (GUI) elements embedded in web pages. Adobe stated in 2013 that more than 400 million out of over 1 billion connected desktops update to the new version of Flash Player within six weeks of release. Flash Player has become increasingly criticized for its performance, consumption of battery on mobile devices, the number of security vulnerabilities that had been discovered in the software, and its closed platform nature. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was highly critical of Flash Player, having published an open letter detailing Apple's reasoning for banning Flash from its i. OS device family. Its usage has also waned because of modern web standards that allow some of Flash's use cases to be fulfilled without third-party plugins.

ADOBE FLASH PLAYER In July 2017, Adobe announced that it would end support for Flash Player at the end of 2020 and continued to encourage the use of open HTML 5 standards in place of Flash. The announcement was coordinated with Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla.

DATA FORMATS XML: Flash Player has included native support for XML parsing and generation since version 8. XML data is held in memory as an XML Document Object Model and can be manipulated using Action. Script 3 also supports ECMAScript for XML (E 4 X), which allows XML data to be manipulated more easily.

DATA FORMATS JSON: Flash Player 11 includes native support for importing and exporting data in the Java. Script Object Notation (JSON) format, which allows interoperability with web services and Java. Script programs.

DATA FORMATS AMF: Flash Player allows application data to be stored on users’ computers, in the form of Local Shared Objects, the Flash equivalent to browser cookies. Flash Player can also natively read and write files in the Action Message Format, the default data format for Local Shared Objects. Since the AMF format specification is published, data can be transferred to and from Flash applications using AMF datasets instead of JSON or XML, reducing the need for parsing and validating such data.

DATA FORMATS SWF: The specification for the SWF file format was published by Adobe, enabling the development of the SWX Format project, which used the SWF file format and AMF as a means for Flash applications to exchange data with server-side applications. The SWX system stores data as standard SWF bytecode which is automatically interpreted by Flash Player. Another open-source project, SWXml allows Flash applications to load XML files as native Action. Script objects without any client-side XML parsing, by converting XML files to SWF/AMF on the server.

MULTIMEDIA FORMATS MP 3: Support for decoding and playback of streaming MPEG-2 Audio Layer III (MP 3) audio was introduced in Flash Player 4. MP 3 files can be accessed and played back from a server via HTTP, or embedded inside an SWF file, which is also a streaming format.

MULTIMEDIA FORMATS FLV: Support for decoding and playing back video and audio inside Flash Video (FLV and F 4 V) files, a format developed by Adobe Systems and Macromedia. Flash Video is only a container format and supports multiple different video codecs, such as Sorenson Spark, VP 6 and more recently H. 264. Flash Player uses hardware acceleration to display video where present, using technologies such as Direct. X Video Acceleration and Open. GL to do so. Flash Video is used by You. Tube, Hulu, Yahoo! Video, BBC Online and other news providers. FLV files can be played back from a server using HTTP progressive download and can also be embedded inside an SWF file. Flash Video can also be streamed via RTMP using the Adobe Flash Media Server or other such server-side software.

MULTIMEDIA FORMATS PNG: Support for decoding and rendering Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images, in both its 24 -bit (opaque) and 32 -bit (semi-transparent) variants. Flash Player 11 can also encode a PNG bitmap via Action. Script.

MULTIMEDIA FORMATS JPEG: Support for decoding and rendering compressed JPEG images. Flash Player 10 added support for the JPEG- XR advanced image compression standard developed by Microsoft Corporation, which results in better compression and quality than JPEG-XR enables lossy and lossless compression with or without alpha channel transparency. Flash Player 11 can also encode a JPEG or JPEG-XR bitmap via Action. Script.

MULTIMEDIA FORMATS GIF: Support for decoding and rendering compressed Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images, in its single-frame variants only. Loading a multi-frame GIF will display only the first image frame.