Adobe Flash Player

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

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 (the original Flash container format)
• FLV (since Flash Player version 6)
• MP4 (announced for the next version of Flash Player version 9, update 3)

Video Codecs:

• Sorenson Spark (since Flash Player version 6)
• Flash screen video (since Flash Player version 7)
• On2 VP6 (since Flash Player version 8)
• H.264 (announced for the next version of Flash Player version 9, update 3)

Audio Codecs:

• Linear PCM (since Flash Player version 2)
• Flash IMA ADPCM (since Flash Player version 2)
• MP3 (since Flash Player version 4)
• Nelly Moser (since Flash Player version 6)
• AAC (announced for the next version of Flash Player version 9, update 3)

References

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