Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash (previously called Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a set of multimedia software created by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems.

Flash can manipulate vector and raster graphics and supports bi-directional streaming of audio and video. It contains a scripting language called ActionScript.

Adobe Flash Player 9

Price Free to download Size 2.9MB (x86) License Proprietary Developer Adobe Website www.adobe.com System Requirements Minimum: CPU: 800MHz RAM: 512MB Graphics: 128MB Recommended @852x480 CPU: Pentium 4 2.33GHz RAM: 128MB Graphics: 64MB of VRAM Support Sites: Wiki, Instructions, Using Adobe Flash and other 32-bit applications on 64-bit Linux Selected Reviews: Practical Technology, DesktopLinux

Features include:

• Lightweight footprint
• Full-screen support with hardware scaling
• Plays MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP and 3G2 content
• Includes H.264 video and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio codec
• Flash Player cache - enables common components, such as the Flex Framework, to be cached locally and then used by any SWF from any domain
• AVM2, a highly optimized ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM)
• ActionScript,a powerful object-oriented programming language of the Adobe Flash Player runtime environment
• Supports expanded integration with Input Method Editors (IMEs) for Asian-language Flash application

Last Updated Monday, September 22 2008 @ 02:15 PM EDT