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Shockwave Flash, later renamed Small Web Format (SWF), is the file type Adobe Flash used to deliver animations, interactive banners, browser games, and video across the web. An SWF stores vector artwork, timelines, embedded media, and ActionScript code in a compact package that streamed well over slow connections. Adobe ended support for Flash Player on 31 December 2020, and every major browser has since removed it, so SWF is now a legacy format.
Ruffle is the modern route: it is a Flash emulator that runs SWF content as a desktop application or browser extension, without Flash Player itself.
Standalone players such as SWF File Player also work on Windows, and VLC media player can play simple SWF files that contain only video. For animations you want to keep long-term, converting them to a standard video format with our SWF to MP4 tool is the most reliable way to preserve them.
Developed by: Macromedia / Adobe Inc.
Initial Release: 1996
Flash Live Video (FLV) is, as the name suggests, a type of Flash video. It is a popular format that delivers high-quality, well-synchronized multimedia content, primarily over the Internet. It is also a media container, and as such, uses codecs to compress file size. FLV uses the open standard ISO/IEC 14496-12:2008, also known as the ISO base media file format, which offers the advantage of flexibility and independence.
By default, FLV opens in Adobe products, namely Animate Creative Cloud (Animate CC) and Flash. It opens best in Adobe Flash version 7 and above. FLV does not support chapters or subtitles, but it does support metadata tags.
Since FLV is based on an open standard, it can open in many non-Adobe products. Other programs in which FLV can open include VLC media player, Zoom Player, RealNetworks RealPlayer Cloud, Eltima Elmedia Player, and others.
Developed by: Adobe
Initial release: 2003
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