Flash Platform

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Adobe Systems

Flash Platform Products

• Flash• Flex• Flash Media Server• Flash Lite ( for Mobile )

Adobe Flash Versions

• FutureSplash Animator (April 10, 1996) • Macromedia Flash 1 (November 1996)• Macromedia Flash 2 (June 1997) • Macromedia Flash 3 (May 31, 1998)• Macromedia Flash 4 (June 15, 1999) • Macromedia Flash 5 (August 24, 2000) • Macromedia Flash MX (ver 6) (March 15, 2002) • Macromedia Flash MX 2004 (ver 7) (September 9,

2003)

Adobe Flash Versions

• Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 (ver 7) (September 9, 2003)

• Macromedia Flash 8 • Macromedia Flash Basic 8 (released on September 13,

2005) • Macromedia Flash Professional 8 (released on

September 13, 2005) • Adobe Flash CS3 Professional (as version 9, released on

April 16, 2007) • Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Timeline by ActionScript version

• 2000–2003: ActionScript "1.0“• 2003–2006: ActionScript 2.0• 2006–today: ActionScript 3.0

Flash Player

• Flash Player

Flash Lite• Flash Lite 1.0: Flash Lite is the Flash technology specifically

developed for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Supports Flash 4 ActionScript.

• Flash Lite 1.1: Flash 4 ActionScript support and additional device APIs added.

• Flash Lite 2.0 and 2.1: Added support for Flash 7 ActionScript 2.0 and some additional fscommand2 API.

• Flash Lite 3: Added support for Flash 8 ActionScript 2.0 and also FLV video playback.

Flash VideoFlash Video is the name of a file format used to

deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced by Macromedia) versions 6–10. Until version 9 update 2 of the Flash Player, Flash Video referred to a proprietary file format, having the extension FLV. The most recent public release of Flash Player supports H.264 video and HE-AAC audio. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube,Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, and many other news providers.

Flash Video File Formats

File Extension Mime Type Description

.f4v video/mp4 Video for Adobe Flash Player

.f4p video/mp4Protected Video for Adobe Flash Player

.f4a audio/mp4 Audio for Adobe Flash Player

.f4b audio/mp4 Audio Book for Adobe Flash Player

Flash Video Example

Flash Video Example

Adobe Media Player

Adobe Media Player is a desktop media player provided by Adobe primarily for the purpose of advertising partner content. It offers users to manage and interact with their media content, and allows content publishers to define branding and advertising in and around their content. The Adobe Media Player will be one of the first Adobe AIR applications from Adobe Systems. It was announced at NAB show in Las Vegas and was released in April 2008

Adobe Media Player

Adobe Flash Media Server ( FMS )

Flash Media Server (FMS) is a proprietary data and media server from Adobe Systems Inc. (originally a Macromedia product). This server works with the Flash Player runtime to create media driven, multiuser RIAs (Rich Internet Applications)

FMS Usage

• Video on Demand, streaming video stored on the server to the flash client.

• Live Video, an application which allows user to broadcast their own video from a webcam live to other users or to the server for recording and on demand viewing later.

• Real Time Communication, an application which requires collaboration between multiple clients, such as a chat room or multiplayer game.

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Buzzword

Adobe Air (Adobe Integrated Runtime)

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications usingAdobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.

Related Adobe Air

Mozilla Prism

Macromedia Flash Paper

Adobe Flex• Flex

Useful Resources

• www.flashkit.com• www.actionscript.org• www.adobe.com/devnet/flash• www.thefwa.com

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