Adobe Flash Player

• Website: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
• Company: Adobe

Adobe Flash player is a popular platform for web multimedia. The maintainer of this Wiki works on the Linux version of this program.

In addition to various animation features, the Flash Player can also natively decode and play back various video and audio codecs. This is a list of containers and codecs that the Flash Player can handle.

Containers:

• SWF
• FLV
• MP4 (announced for the next version of Flash Player)

Video Codecs:

• Sorenson Spark
• Flash screen video
• On2 VP6
• H.264 (announced for the next version of Flash Player)

Audio Codecs:

• Linear PCM
• Flash IMA ADPCM (with 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-bit predictors)
• Nelly Moser
• MP3
• AAC (announced for the next version of Flash Player)

References

• Tinic Uro, "What just happened to video on the web?" (discussion of upcoming MP4/H.264/AAC support)