Shockwave Flash EOL is 09 April 2019 as in my image.Video performance depends very much on the screen resolution and player size, as well as the CPU/GPU and source resolution 1080 (Full HD) played back at full screen will produce more dropouts/skipped frames than the same video on a 720 (HD ‘Ready’) full screen or a video scaled down to 720 on a 1080 screen, esp. So, asume he thought very few was using it (and as I understand it it doesn't work in 64-bit browsers and in Fx 52 they cut down on supported plugins).Īdobe Flash Player (Shockwave Flash) will be EOL in 2020, according to Adobe.Īrgus wrote:It seems you are talking about another product. And after Adobe AIR was released, Flash programs could now be published as native applications, further reducing the need for Director.' However, with the release of Flash Player 11, GPU-based 3D rendering was now supported using Stage3D (the underlying API), Awa圓D or Flare3D (3D game engines). 'As of 2008, the market position of Director/Shockwave overlapped with Flash to a high degree, the only advantage of Director being its native 3D capabilities.

After the Adobe acquisition, no new versions were released for four years.' 'The early 2000s saw the decline in the usage of Director/Shockwave as most multimedia professionals preferred Macromedia Flash and other competing platforms. In February 2019, Adobe announced that Shockwave Player would be officially discontinued and unsupported on Microsoft Windows effective April 9, 2019. In 2017, the authoring tool for Shockwave content Adobe Director, was discontinued on February 1 and the following month Shockwave Player for macOS was officially discontinued. Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR are alternatives to Shockwave, with its 3D rendering capabilities, object-oriented programming language, and capacity to run as a native executable on multiple platforms.

'In July 2011, a survey found that Flash Player had 99% market penetration in desktop browsers in 'mature markets' (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand), while Shockwave Player claimed only 41% in these markets. (A long time ago Macromedia branded it Shockwave Flash.) It seems you are talking about another product.Īdobe Shockwave Player ≠ Adobe Flash Player.

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