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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Adobe flash file format</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/SWF_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="SWF (disambiguation)">SWF (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the Adobe Flash file format sometimes referred to as "Shockwave Flash". For the <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">browser</a> <a href="/wiki/Plug-in_(computing)" title="Plug-in (computing)">plug-in</a> labeled "Shockwave Flash", see <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player" title="Adobe Flash Player">Adobe Flash Player</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave" title="Adobe Shockwave">Adobe Shockwave</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title" style="padding-bottom: 0.15em;">Small Web Format (SWF)</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flash_Player_34_SWF_icon.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Flash_Player_34_SWF_icon.png/64px-Flash_Player_34_SWF_icon.png" decoding="async" width="64" height="64" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Flash_Player_34_SWF_icon.png/96px-Flash_Player_34_SWF_icon.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Flash_Player_34_SWF_icon.png/128px-Flash_Player_34_SWF_icon.png 2x" data-file-width="256" data-file-height="256" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Filename_extension" title="Filename extension">Filename extension</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><div class="monospaced"> .swf</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Media_type" title="Media type">Internet media type</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><div class="monospaced"> application/vnd.adobe.flash.movie,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> application/x-shockwave-flash<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/File_format#Magic_number" title="File format">Magic number</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;"><code>CWS</code>,<code>FWS</code><sup id="cite_ref-swfspec10_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swfspec10-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <code>ZWS</code><sup id="cite_ref-swfspec19_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swfspec19-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;">Developed by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;"><a href="/wiki/FutureWave_Software" title="FutureWave Software">FutureWave Software</a>, <br />later taken over by <a href="/wiki/Macromedia" title="Macromedia">Macromedia</a> and <br /><a href="/wiki/Adobe_Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Systems">Adobe Systems</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;">Type of format</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;"><a href="/wiki/Vector_graphics" title="Vector graphics">Vector graphic</a> animation</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Container_format" title="Container format">Container for</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;">Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash), sometimes labeled <em>Shockwave Flash Object</em>.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>SWF</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'w' in 'wind'">w</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span></span>/</a></span></span>)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a defunct <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash" title="Adobe Flash">Adobe Flash</a> <a href="/wiki/File_format" title="File format">file format</a> that was used for <a href="/wiki/Multimedia" title="Multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vector_graphics" title="Vector graphics">vector graphics</a> and <a href="/wiki/ActionScript" title="ActionScript">ActionScript</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-swfopen_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swfopen-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Originating with <a href="/wiki/FutureWave_Software" title="FutureWave Software">FutureWave Software</a>, then transferred to <a href="/wiki/Macromedia" title="Macromedia">Macromedia</a>, and then coming under the control of <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Systems">Adobe</a>, SWF files can contain <a href="/wiki/Animation" title="Animation">animations</a> or <a href="/wiki/Applet" title="Applet">applets</a> of varying degrees of interactivity and function. They may also occur in programs, commonly <a href="/wiki/Browser_game" title="Browser game">browser games</a>, using <a href="/wiki/ActionScript" title="ActionScript">ActionScript</a>. </p><p>Programmers can generate SWF files from within several Adobe products, including <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash" title="Adobe Flash">Flash</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Builder" title="Adobe Flash Builder">Flash Builder</a> (an <a href="/wiki/Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">IDE</a>), <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Animate" title="Adobe Animate">Adobe Animate</a> (a rename of Adobe Flash since 2016), and <a href="/wiki/Adobe_After_Effects" title="Adobe After Effects">After Effects</a>, as well as through MXMLC, a command-line application compiler which forms part of the freely-available <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flex" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Flex">Flex SDK</a>. Although Adobe <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator" title="Adobe Illustrator">Illustrator</a> can generate SWF format files through its "export" function, it cannot open or edit them. Other than using Adobe products, one can build SWFs with <a href="/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source</a> <a href="/wiki/MTASC" title="MTASC">Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler (MTASC)</a>, the open-source <a href="/wiki/Ming_library" title="Ming library">Ming library</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Free-software" class="mw-redirect" title="Free-software">free-software</a> suite <a href="/wiki/SWFTools" title="SWFTools">SWFTools</a>. Various other third-party programs can also produce files in this format, such as <a href="/wiki/Multimedia_Fusion_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Multimedia Fusion 2">Multimedia Fusion 2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Captivate" title="Adobe Captivate">Captivate</a> and <a href="/wiki/SWiSH_Max" title="SWiSH Max">SWiSH Max</a>. </p><p>The term "SWF" originated as an abbreviation for <b>ShockWave Flash</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-Schaeffer2007_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schaeffer2007-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This usage was changed to the <a href="/wiki/Backronym" title="Backronym">backronym</a> <b>Small Web Format</b> to eliminate confusion with a different technology, <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave" title="Adobe Shockwave">Shockwave</a>, from which SWF derived.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NiederstRobbins2001_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NiederstRobbins2001-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is no official resolution to the initialism "SWF" by Adobe.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adobe declared its Flash player EOL on December 31, 2020. On January 12, 2021, it pushed an update to its Flash player that blocked all Flash content from running.<sup id="cite_ref-flashdead_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-flashdead-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SWF&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The small company <a href="/wiki/FutureWave_Software" title="FutureWave Software">FutureWave Software</a> originally defined the file format with one primary objective: to create small files for displaying entertaining animations.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The idea involved a format which player software could run on any system and which would work with slower network connections. FutureWave released <a href="/wiki/FutureSplash_Animator" class="mw-redirect" title="FutureSplash Animator">FutureSplash Animator</a> in May 1996. In December 1996 Macromedia acquired FutureWave and FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash 1.0. </p><p>The original naming of SWF came out of Macromedia's desire to capitalize on the well-known <a href="/wiki/Macromedia_Shockwave" class="mw-redirect" title="Macromedia Shockwave">Macromedia Shockwave</a> brand; <a href="/wiki/Macromedia_Director" class="mw-redirect" title="Macromedia Director">Macromedia Director</a> produced Shockwave files for the end user, so the files created by their newer Flash product tried to capitalize on the already established brand. As Flash became more popular than Shockwave itself, this branding decision became more of a liability, so the format started to be referred to as simply SWF.<sup id="cite_ref-Schaeffer2007_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schaeffer2007-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 1, 2008, Adobe dropped its licensing restrictions on the SWF format specifications, as part of the <a href="/wiki/Open_Screen_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="Open Screen Project">Open Screen Project</a>. However, <a href="/wiki/Rob_Savoye" title="Rob Savoye">Rob Savoye</a>, a member of the <a href="/wiki/Gnash_(software)" title="Gnash (software)">Gnash</a> development team, has pointed to some parts of the Flash format which remain closed.<sup id="cite_ref-stillpartlyclosed_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stillpartlyclosed-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On July 1, 2008, Adobe released code to Google and Yahoo, which allowed their search engines to crawl and index SWF files.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SWF&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The main graphical primitive in SWF is the path, which is a chain of segments of primitive types, ranging from lines to <a href="/wiki/Spline_(mathematics)" title="Spline (mathematics)">splines</a> or <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve" title="Bézier curve">Bézier curves</a>. Additional primitives like rectangles, ellipses, and even text can be built from these. The graphical elements in SWF are thus fairly similar to <a href="/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics" class="mw-redirect" title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</a> and <a href="/wiki/MPEG-4_BIFS" class="mw-redirect" title="MPEG-4 BIFS">MPEG-4 BIFS</a>. SWF also uses <a href="/wiki/Display_list" title="Display list">display lists</a> and allows naming and reusing previously defined components.<sup id="cite_ref-compar_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-compar-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The binary stream format SWF uses is fairly similar to <a href="/wiki/QuickTime" title="QuickTime">QuickTime</a> atoms, with a tag, length and payload –  an organization that makes it very easy for (older) players to skip contents they don't support.<sup id="cite_ref-compar_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-compar-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Originally limited to presenting vector-based objects and images in a simple sequential manner, the format in its later versions allows audio (since Flash 3) and video (since Flash 6). </p><p>Adobe introduced a new, low-level 3D API in version 11 of the Flash Player. Initially codenamed Molehill, the official name given to this API was ultimately <a href="/wiki/Stage3D" title="Stage3D">Stage3D</a>. It was intended to be an equivalent of <a href="/wiki/OpenGL" title="OpenGL">OpenGL</a> or <a href="/wiki/Direct3D" title="Direct3D">Direct3D</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kaitila2011_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kaitila2011-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 9">: 9 </span></sup> In Stage3D <a href="/wiki/Shader" title="Shader">shaders</a> are expressed in a low-level language called <a href="/wiki/Stage3D#Features" title="Stage3D">Adobe Graphics Assembly Language</a> (AGAL).<sup id="cite_ref-Kaitila2011_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kaitila2011-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 57">: 57 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adoption">Adoption</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SWF&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Adoption"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Players" title="Adobe Flash">Adobe Flash § Players</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Animation_Tools" title="Adobe Flash">Adobe Flash § Animation Tools</a></div> <p>Adobe makes available <a href="/wiki/Plug-in_(computing)" title="Plug-in (computing)">plugins</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player" title="Adobe Flash Player">Adobe Flash Player</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Integrated Runtime">Adobe Integrated Runtime</a>, to play SWF files in <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">web browsers</a> on many desktop operating systems, including <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS X">Mac OS X</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> on the <a href="/wiki/X86_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="X86 architecture">x86 architecture</a> and <a href="/wiki/ARM_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="ARM architecture">ARM architecture</a> (<a href="/wiki/ChromeOS" title="ChromeOS">ChromeOS</a> only). </p><p><a href="/wiki/GNU" title="GNU">GNU</a> has started developing a <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a> SWF player called <a href="/wiki/Gnash_(software)" title="Gnash (software)">Gnash</a> under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL). Despite being a declared high-priority GNU project, funding for Gnash was fairly limited.<sup id="cite_ref-lwn_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lwn-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another player is the <a href="/wiki/GNU_LGPL" class="mw-redirect" title="GNU LGPL">LGPL</a>-licensed <a href="/wiki/Swfdec" title="Swfdec">Swfdec</a>. <a href="/wiki/Lightspark" title="Lightspark">Lightspark</a> is a continuation of Gnash supporting more recent SWF versions.<sup id="cite_ref-lwn_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lwn-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adobe has incorporated SWF playback and authoring in other product and technologies of theirs, including in <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave" title="Adobe Shockwave">Adobe Shockwave</a>, which renders more complex documents.<sup id="cite_ref-compar_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-compar-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> SWF can also be embedded in <a href="/wiki/PDF" title="PDF">PDF</a> files; these are viewable with <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Reader" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Reader">Adobe Reader</a> 9 or later.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/InDesign" class="mw-redirect" title="InDesign">InDesign</a> CS6 can also produce some limited forms of SWF animations directly.<sup id="cite_ref-SmithTeam2012_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SmithTeam2012-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sony <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_Portable" title="PlayStation Portable">PlayStation Portable</a> consoles can play limited SWF files in Sony's web browser, beginning with firmware version 2.71. Both the <a href="/wiki/Nintendo" title="Nintendo">Nintendo</a> <a href="/wiki/Wii" title="Wii">Wii</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a> <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_3" title="PlayStation 3">PS3</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> consoles can run SWF files through their web browsers. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Scaleform" class="mw-redirect" title="Scaleform">Scaleform</a> GFx is a commercial alternative SWF player that features full <a href="/wiki/Hardware_acceleration" title="Hardware acceleration">hardware acceleration</a> using the <a href="/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit" title="Graphics processing unit">GPU</a> and has high conformance up to Flash 8 and AS2. Scaleform GFx is licensed as a <a href="/wiki/Game_middleware" class="mw-redirect" title="Game middleware">game middleware</a> solution and used by many PC and console 3D games for user interfaces, <a href="/wiki/HUD_(video_gaming)" class="mw-redirect" title="HUD (video gaming)">HUDs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minigame" title="Minigame">mini games</a>, and video playback.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The newer 3D features of SWF have been seen as an alternative to <a href="/wiki/WebGL" title="WebGL">WebGL</a>, with a spurt of 3D engines like <a href="/wiki/Papervision3D" title="Papervision3D">Papervision3D</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-KerrKeats2009_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KerrKeats2009-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lively2010_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lively2010-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TondeurWinder2009_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TondeurWinder2009-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Away3D" title="Away3D">Away3D</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-KerrKeats2009_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KerrKeats2009-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Casperson2011_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Casperson2011-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ivanov2011_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ivanov2011-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sandy 3D,<sup id="cite_ref-KerrKeats2009_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KerrKeats2009-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McCuneSubramaniam2009_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCuneSubramaniam2009-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Alternativa 3D targeting 3D SWF.<sup id="cite_ref-Lengyel2011_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lengyel2011-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although some of these projects started around 2005, until Flash Player 10 however they had no support of <a href="/wiki/GPU" class="mw-redirect" title="GPU">GPU</a> acceleration, and even in that version of the Flash Player, shaders could be used for same materials, but vertex information still had to be processed on the CPU (using <a href="/wiki/BSP_tree" class="mw-redirect" title="BSP tree">BSP trees</a> etc.)<sup id="cite_ref-Lengyel2011_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lengyel2011-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After version 11 of the Flash Player added the new Stage3D low-level API, some but not all of these projects migrated to the new API. One that did migrate was Away3D, version 4.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Based on an independent study conducted by Millward Brown and published by Adobe, in 2010, over 99% of desktop web browsers in the "mature markets" (defined as United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand) had a SWF plugin installed, with around 90% having the latest version of the Flash Player.<sup id="cite_ref-Adobe_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adobe-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Due to the increasing popularity of HTML5 for games and animations, as well as the numerous security holes that had plagued Adobe's SWF player, Adobe declared its Flash player <a href="/wiki/End-of-life_product" title="End-of-life product">EOL</a> on December 31, 2020. On January 12, 2021, it pushed an update to its Flash player that blocked all Flash content from running. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Published_specifications">Published specifications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SWF&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Published specifications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adobe makes available a partial specification of SWF,<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> most recently updated in January 2013 to reflect changes in SWF version 19.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> SWF versions have been decoupled from Flash player versions after Flash 10. Afterwards the version number of the SWF progressed rapidly; SWF version 19 corresponds to the new features added in Flash Player 11.6.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Flash Player 14 uses SWF version 25.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2008, the specifications document was criticized by <a href="/wiki/Rob_Savoye" title="Rob Savoye">Rob Savoye</a>, the lead developer of the <a href="/wiki/Gnash_(software)" title="Gnash (software)">Gnash</a> project, as missing "huge amounts" of information needed to completely implement SWF, omitting specifications for <a href="/wiki/Real_Time_Messaging_Protocol" class="mw-redirect" title="Real Time Messaging Protocol">RTMP</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sorenson_codec" class="mw-redirect" title="Sorenson codec">Sorenson Spark</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-stillpartlyclosed_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stillpartlyclosed-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Real_Time_Messaging_Protocol" class="mw-redirect" title="Real Time Messaging Protocol">RTMP</a> specification<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was released publicly in June 2009.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The Sorenson Spark codec is not Adobe's property. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Licensing">Licensing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SWF&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Licensing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Until May 1, 2008, implementing software that plays SWF was disallowed by the specification's license.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On that date, as part of its Open Screen Project, Adobe dropped all such restrictions on the SWF and <a href="/wiki/Flash_Video" title="Flash Video">FLV</a> formats.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Implementing software which creates SWF files has always been permitted, on the condition that the resulting files <a href="/wiki/Rendering_(computer_graphics)" title="Rendering (computer graphics)">render</a> "error free in the latest publicly available version of Adobe Flash Player."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Related_file_formats_and_extensions">Related file formats and extensions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SWF&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Related file formats and extensions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Other formats related to SWF authoring in the Adobe tool chain remain without a public specification. One example is FLA, which is the editable version of SWF used by Adobe's Flash, but not by other Adobe tools that can also output SWF, albeit with fewer features.<sup id="cite_ref-HarringtonGeduld2009_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HarringtonGeduld2009-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Extension </th> <th>Explanation </th></tr> <tr> <th><b>.<a href="/wiki/ActionScript" title="ActionScript">abc</a></b> </th> <td>Actionscript bytecode used by the Actionscript Virtual Machine AVM (Flash 8 and prior), and AVM2 (Flash 9 or later). </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.<a href="/wiki/Action_Message_Format" title="Action Message Format">amf</a></b> </th> <td>Action Message commands for transacting with a <a href="/wiki/Flash_Media_Server" class="mw-redirect" title="Flash Media Server">FMS</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.<a href="/wiki/ActionScript" title="ActionScript">as</a></b> </th> <td>ActionScript <a href="/wiki/Source_code" title="Source code">source code</a> in simple source files. FLA files can also contain Actionscript code directly, but separate external .as files often emerge for structural reasons, or to expose the code to versioning applications. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.asc</b> </th> <td>Server-Side ActionScript, which is used to develop efficient and flexible client-server Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX applications. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.aso</b> </th> <td>Cache files used during Flash development, containing compiled ActionScript byte code. An ASO file is recreated when a change in its corresponding class files is detected. Occasionally the Flash IDE does not recognize that a recompile is necessary, and these cache files must be deleted manually. They are located in %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash8\en\Configuration\Classes\aso on Win32 / Flash8. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.f4a</b> </th> <td>Adobe suffix for iTunes M4A files that contain only audio streams.<sup id="cite_ref-newformats_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newformats-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.f4b</b> </th> <td>Adobe suffix for iTunes M4B <a href="/wiki/Audiobook" title="Audiobook">audiobook</a> files.<sup id="cite_ref-newformats_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newformats-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.f4f</b> </th> <td>MP4 atom-ized fragmented files. Containing <a href="/wiki/Flash_Video#Packets" title="Flash Video">FLV packets</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.f4m</b> </th> <td>XML manifest files. Containing <a href="/wiki/Base64" title="Base64">base64</a> FLV onMetaData headers for an Adobe version of bit rate control <a href="/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming" title="HTTP Live Streaming">HTTP Live Streaming</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.f4p</b> </th> <td>Adobe suffix for media encrypted with the Adobe Access <a href="/wiki/Digital_rights_management" title="Digital rights management">digital rights management</a> scheme which is based on the same protection scheme that their RTMP protocol uses.<sup id="cite_ref-newformats_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newformats-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.f4v</b> </th> <td>Similar to iTunes M4V files which are based on <a href="/wiki/MP4" class="mw-redirect" title="MP4">MP4</a> and can be played back by Flash Player 9 Update 3 and above. F4V file format is second container format for Flash video and it differs from FLV file format. It is based on the <a href="/wiki/ISO_base_media_file_format" title="ISO base media file format">ISO base media file format</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FLV-F4V_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FLV-F4V-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-newformats_43-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newformats-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.<a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash#FLA" title="Adobe Flash">fla</a></b> </th> <td>Source material for the Flash application. Flash authoring software can edit FLA files and compile them into .swf files. The Flash source file format is currently a binary file format based on the <a href="/wiki/Compound_File_Binary_Format" title="Compound File Binary Format">Microsoft Compound File Format</a>. In Flash Pro CS5, the fla file format is a zip container of an XML-based project structure. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.flp</b> </th> <td>XML files used to reference all the document files contained in a Flash Project. Flash Projects allow the user to group multiple, related files together to assist in Flash project organization, compilation and build. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.<a href="/wiki/Flash_Video" title="Flash Video">flv</a></b> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Flash_video" class="mw-redirect" title="Flash video">Flash video</a> files, as created by Adobe Flash, <a href="/wiki/FFmpeg" title="FFmpeg">ffmpeg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sorenson_Squeeze" title="Sorenson Squeeze">Sorenson Squeeze</a>, or <a href="/wiki/On2_Flix" title="On2 Flix">On2 Flix</a>. The audio and video data within FLV files are encoded in the same way as they are within SWF files. </td></tr> <tr> <th>.<b><a href="/wiki/FXG" title="FXG">fxg</a></b> </th> <td>Unified xml file format being developed by <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Systems_Incorporated" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Adobe</a> for <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flex" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Flex">Flex</a>, Flash, <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop" title="Adobe Photoshop">Photoshop</a> and other applications. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.jsfl</b> </th> <td>Adds functionality in the Flash Authoring environment; they contain JavaScript code and access the Flash JavaScript API. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b><a href="/wiki/MXML" title="MXML">.mxml</a></b> </th> <td>Used in conjunction with ActionScript files (and .css files), and offer a markup-language-style syntax (like HTML) for designing the GUI in Flex. Each MXML file creates a new class that extends the class of the root tag, and adds the nested tags as children (if they are descendants of UIComponent) or members of the class. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.sol</b> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player" title="Adobe Flash Player">Adobe Flash Player</a> container to hold <a href="/wiki/Local_Shared_Object" class="mw-redirect" title="Local Shared Object">Local Shared Objects</a> (data stored on the system running the Flash player). </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.spl</b> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/FutureSplash_Animator" class="mw-redirect" title="FutureSplash Animator">FutureSplash Animator</a> documents. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.<a href="/wiki/Adobe_SWC_file" title="Adobe SWC file">swc</a></b> </th> <td>Container for distributing components; they contain a compiled clip, the component's ActionScript class file, and other files that describe the component. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.swd</b> </th> <td>Temporary debugging files used during Flash development. Once finished developing a Flash project these files are not needed and can be removed. </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.swf</b> </th> <td>Completed, compiled and published files that cannot be edited with Adobe Flash. However, several non-Adobe '.swf <a href="/wiki/Decompiler" title="Decompiler">decompilers</a>' exist (like that of Sothink) to convert SWF back to the FLA format,<sup id="cite_ref-decomp_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-decomp-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or to the more recent <a href="/wiki/Apache_Flex" title="Apache Flex">Apache Flex</a> format.<sup id="cite_ref-TiwariElrom2010_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TiwariElrom2010-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Attempting to import .swf files using Flash allows it to retrieve some assets from the .swf, but not all.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.swt</b> </th> <td>'Templatized' forms of .swf files, used by Macromedia Generator. It is also <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Dreamweaver" title="Adobe Dreamweaver">Adobe Dreamweaver</a>'s Flash template file extension.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>.xfl</b> </th> <td>XML-based project files that are equivalent to the binary .fla format. Flash authoring software uses XFL as an exchange format in Flash CS4. It imports XFL files that are exported from InDesign and AfterEffects. In Flash Pro CS5, the xfl file is a key file which opens the "uncompressed FLA" file, which is a hierarchy of folders containing XML and binary files. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SWF&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Adobe Flash</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ActionScript" title="ActionScript">ActionScript</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ActionScript_code_protection" class="mw-redirect" title="ActionScript code protection">ActionScript code protection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player" title="Adobe Flash Player">Adobe Flash Player</a>, the runtime that executes and plays back Flash movies</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Lite" title="Adobe Flash Lite">Adobe Flash Lite</a>, a lightweight version of Flash Player for devices that lack the resources to run regular Flash movies</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flash_Video" title="Flash Video">Flash Video</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ming_library" title="Ming library">Ming library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saffron_Type_System" title="Saffron Type System">Saffron Type System</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Spatial_anti-aliasing" title="Spatial anti-aliasing">anti-aliased</a> text-rendering engine used in version 8 onwards</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Local_Shared_Object" class="mw-redirect" title="Local Shared Object">Local Shared Object</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SWFObject" title="SWFObject">SWFObject</a>, a JavaScript library used to embed Flash content into webpages.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Other</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/OpenLaszlo" title="OpenLaszlo">OpenLaszlo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Personal_video_recorder" class="mw-redirect" title="Personal video recorder">Personal video recorders</a> –  some possibly record and play swf files</li> <li><a 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