Flash Video, the Glossary
Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver digital video content (e.g., TV shows, movies, etc.) over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer.[1]
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- Adobe Flash
- Digital container formats
A-law algorithm
An A-law algorithm is a standard companding algorithm, used in European 8-bit PCM digital communications systems to optimize, i.e. modify, the dynamic range of an analog signal for digitizing.
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ActionScript
ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. (later acquired by Adobe). Flash Video and ActionScript are Adobe Flash.
See Flash Video and ActionScript
Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation
Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation (ADPCM) is a variant of differential pulse-code modulation (DPCM) that varies the size of the quantization step, to allow further reduction of the required data bandwidth for a given signal-to-noise ratio.
See Flash Video and Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation
Adobe Animate
Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional, Macromedia Flash, and FutureSplash Animator) is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe. Flash Video and Adobe Animate are Adobe Flash.
See Flash Video and Adobe Animate
Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player (known in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome as Shockwave Flash) is a discontinuedExcept in China, where it continues to be used, as well as Harman for enterprise users. Flash Video and Adobe Flash Player are Adobe Flash.
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Adobe Inc.
Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.
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Adobe Media Player was a desktop media player that allowed users to manage and interact with their media content, and allowed content publishers to define branding and advertising in and around their content.
See Flash Video and Adobe Media Player
Adobe Media Server (AMS) is a proprietary data and media server from Adobe Systems (originally a Macromedia product). Flash Video and Adobe Media Server are Adobe Flash.
See Flash Video and Adobe Media Server
Advanced Audio Coding
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression.
See Flash Video and Advanced Audio Coding
Advanced Encryption Standard
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael, is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.
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Advanced Video Coding
Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding.
See Flash Video and Advanced Video Coding
Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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Android version history
The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of its first beta on November 5, 2007.
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Any Video Converter
Any Video Converter is a video converter developed by Anvsoft Inc.
See Flash Video and Any Video Converter
Apache Flex
Apache Flex, formerly Adobe Flex, is a software development kit (SDK) for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich web applications based on the Adobe Flash platform.
See Flash Video and Apache Flex
Asao (codec)
Asao (also known as Nellymoser audio codec) is a proprietary single-channel (mono) codec and compression format optimized for low-bitrate transmission of audio, developed by Nellymoser Inc.
See Flash Video and Asao (codec)
Base64
In computer programming, Base64 is a group of binary-to-text encoding schemes that transforms binary data into a sequence of printable characters, limited to a set of 64 unique characters.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Bit rate
In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time.
Bitstream
A bitstream (or bit stream), also known as binary sequence, is a sequence of bits.
C string handling
The C programming language has a set of functions implementing operations on strings (character strings and byte strings) in its standard library.
See Flash Video and C string handling
Codec
A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal.
Color depth
Color depth or colour depth (see spelling differences), also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component of a single pixel.
See Flash Video and Color depth
Container format
A container format (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single file, usually along with metadata for identifying and further detailing those streams. Flash Video and container format are digital container formats.
See Flash Video and Container format
Digital video
Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data.
See Flash Video and Digital video
DirectX Video Acceleration
DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be hardware-accelerated.
See Flash Video and DirectX Video Acceleration
EIA-608
EIA-608, also known as "line 21 captions" and "CEA-608", was once the standard for closed captioning for NTSC TV broadcasts in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams.
Film
A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
Flash Video
Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver digital video content (e.g., TV shows, movies, etc.) over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer. Flash Video and Flash Video are Adobe Flash and digital container formats.
See Flash Video and Flash Video
FormatFactory
FormatFactory is an ad-supported freeware multimedia converter that can convert video, audio, and picture files.
See Flash Video and FormatFactory
FourCC
A FourCC ("four-character code") is a sequence of four bytes (typically ASCII) used to uniquely identify data formats.
Free Studio
Free Studio is a freeware set of multimedia programs developed by DVDVideoSoft.
See Flash Video and Free Studio
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.
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Google Video
Google Video was a free video hosting service, originally launched by Google on January 25, 2005.
See Flash Video and Google Video
H.263
H.263 is a video compression standard originally designed as a low-bit-rate compressed format for videotelephony.
HandBrake
HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files.
Helix Universal Server
The Helix Universal Media Server was a product developed by RealNetworks and originates from the first streaming media server originally developed by Progressive Networks in 1994.
See Flash Video and Helix Universal Server
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC) is an audio coding format for lossy data compression of digital audio defined as an MPEG-4 Audio profile in ISO/IEC 14496–3.
See Flash Video and High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
HTTP
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
HTTP Live Streaming
HTTP Live Streaming (also known as HLS) is an HTTP-based adaptive bitrate streaming communications protocol developed by Apple Inc. and released in 2009.
See Flash Video and HTTP Live Streaming
Hulu
Hulu (styled hulu in its logo) is an American subscription streaming media and content hub within the Disney+ streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company.
ID3
ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format.
Initialization vector
In cryptography, an initialization vector (IV) or starting variable is an input to a cryptographic primitive being used to provide the initial state.
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Inline linking
Inline linking (also known as hotlinking, piggy-backing, direct linking, offsite image grabs, bandwidth theft, and leeching) is the use of a linked object, often an image, on one site by a web page belonging to a second site.
See Flash Video and Inline linking
Inter frame
An inter frame is a frame in a video compression stream which is expressed in terms of one or more neighboring frames.
See Flash Video and Inter frame
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
IOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.
IPad
The iPad is a brand of iOS- and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple, first introduced on January 27, 2010.
IPhone
The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system.
The ISO base media file format (ISOBMFF) is a container file format that defines a general structure for files that contain time-based multimedia data such as video and audio. Flash Video and ISO base media file format are digital container formats.
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ITunes
iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.
Jonathan Gay
Jonathan Gay (born 1967) is an American computer programmer and software entrepreneur based in Northern California.
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JSON
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation, pronounced or) is an open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays (or other serializable values).
Knol
Knol was a Google project that aimed to include user-written articles on a range of topics.
Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
A local shared object (LSO), commonly called a Flash cookie (due to its similarity with an HTTP cookie), is a piece of data that websites that use Adobe Flash may store on a user's computer. Flash Video and local shared object are Adobe Flash.
See Flash Video and Local shared object
Lossy compression
In information technology, lossy compression or irreversible compression is the class of data compression methods that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding to represent the content.
See Flash Video and Lossy compression
MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
Macromedia, Inc., was an American graphics, multimedia, and web development software company (1992–2005) headquartered in San Francisco, California, that made products such as Flash and Dreamweaver.
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MainConcept
MainConcept GmbH is a software company founded in Germany by Markus Moenig and Thomas Zabel.
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Media Player Classic (MPC), Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) are a family of free and open-source, compact, lightweight, and customizable media players for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows.
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A media type (formerly known as a MIME type) is a two-part identifier for file formats and format contents transmitted on the Internet.
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Metacafe was an Israeli video-sharing website, launched in July 2003.
Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.
MP4 file format
MPEG-4 Part 14, or MP4, is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Flash Video and MP4 file format are digital container formats.
See Flash Video and MP4 file format
MPEG-2
MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".
MPEG-4 Part 17
MPEG-4 Part 17, or MPEG-4 Timed Text (MP4TT), or MPEG-4 Streaming text format is the text-based subtitle format for MPEG-4, published as ISO/IEC 14496-17 in 2006.
See Flash Video and MPEG-4 Part 17
MPEG-4 Part 2
MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Visual (formally ISO/IEC 14496-2) is a video compression format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).
See Flash Video and MPEG-4 Part 2
MPlayer
MPlayer is a free and open-source media player software application.
On2 Technologies
On2 Technologies, formerly known as The Duck Corporation, was a small publicly traded company (on the American Stock Exchange), founded in New York City in 1992 and headquartered in Clifton Park, New York, that designed video codec technology.
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Open-source license
Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared.
See Flash Video and Open-source license
OpenGL
OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics.
Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
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Perian
Perian was a open-source QuickTime component that enabled Apple Inc.’s QuickTime to play several popular video formats not supported natively by QuickTime on macOS.
Plug-in (computing)
In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.
See Flash Video and Plug-in (computing)
Progressive download
A progressive download is the transfer of digital media files from a server to a client, typically using the HTTP protocol when initiated from a computer.
See Flash Video and Progressive download
QuickTime
QuickTime is a discontinued extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats.
QuickTime File Format
QuickTime File Format (QTFF) is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework. Flash Video and QuickTime File Format are digital container formats.
See Flash Video and QuickTime File Format
Real-Time Messaging Protocol
Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a communication protocol for streaming audio, video, and data over the Internet. Flash Video and Real-Time Messaging Protocol are Adobe Flash.
See Flash Video and Real-Time Messaging Protocol
RealPlayer
RealPlayer, formerly RealAudio Player, RealOne Player and RealPlayer G2, is a cross-platform media player app, developed by RealNetworks.
See Flash Video and RealPlayer
Red5 is a free software media streaming server implemented in Java, which provides services similar to those offered by the proprietary Adobe Flash Media Server and Wowza Streaming Engine including.
See Flash Video and Red5 (media server)
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Run-length encoding
Run-length encoding (RLE) is a form of lossless data compression in which runs of data (consecutive occurrences of the same data value) are stored as a single occurrence of that data value and a count of its consecutive occurrences, rather than as the original run.
See Flash Video and Run-length encoding
Screencast
A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture or a screen recording, often containing audio narration. Flash Video and screencast are digital container formats.
See Flash Video and Screencast
Skyfire (company)
Skyfire is a software company founded in 2007, and acquired by Opera Software ASA, now Otello Corporation, in 2013.
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Sorenson Media was an American software company specializing in video encoding technology.
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Sorenson Squeeze
Sorenson Squeeze was a software video encoding tool used to compress and convert video and audio files on Mac OS X or Windows operating systems.
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Spectral band replication
Spectral band replication (SBR) is a technology to enhance audio or speech codecs, especially at low bit rates and is based on harmonic redundancy in the frequency domain.
See Flash Video and Spectral band replication
Speex
Speex is an audio compression codec specifically tuned for the reproduction of human speech and also a free software speech codec that may be used on voice over IP applications and podcasts.
Stream ripping
Stream ripping (also called stream recording) is the process of saving data streams to a file.
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Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.
See Flash Video and Streaming media
SUPER (computer program)
Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Recorder (SUPER) is a closed-source front end for open-source software video players and encoders provided by the FFmpeg, MEncoder, MPlayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora, musepack, Monkey's Audio, True Audio, WavPack, libavcodec, and the Theora/Vorbis RealProducer plugIn projects.
See Flash Video and SUPER (computer program)
SWF
SWF is a defunct Adobe Flash file format that was used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript. Flash Video and SWF are Adobe Flash.
SWFObject
SWFObject (originally FlashObject) is an unmaintained open-source JavaScript library used to embed Adobe Flash content onto Web pages and to protect the flash game against piracy, which is supplied as one small JavaScript file. Flash Video and SWFObject are Adobe Flash.
Television show
A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is traditionally broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.
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The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) is a software media player which operates on portable devices and Windows-based PCs.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Timed text
Timed text is the presentation of text media in synchrony with other media, such as audio and video.
See Flash Video and Timed text
Transcoding
Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another, such as for video data files, audio files (e.g., MP3, WAV), or character encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO/IEC 8859).
See Flash Video and Transcoding
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
Vevo
Vevo LLC (an abbreviation for "Video Evolution", stylized in all caps until 2013) is an American multinational video hosting service, best known for providing music videos to YouTube.
Video codec
A video codec is software or hardware that compresses and decompresses digital video.
See Flash Video and Video codec
Video coding format
A video coding format (or sometimes video compression format) is a content representation format of digital video content, such as in a data file or bitstream.
See Flash Video and Video coding format
VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project.
See Flash Video and VLC media player
VP6
On2 TrueMotion VP6 is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec.
Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
See Flash Video and Web browser
Winamp
Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million.
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.
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Wowza Streaming Engine
Wowza Streaming Engine (known as Wowza Media Server prior to version 4) is a unified streaming media server software developed by Wowza.
See Flash Video and Wowza Streaming Engine
X.509
In cryptography, X.509 is an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standard defining the format of public key certificates.
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.
Yahoo! Screen
The company Yahoo! ran several similar video services.
See Flash Video and Yahoo! Screen
Zlib
zlib (or "zeta-lib") is a software library used for data compression as well as a data format.
3GP and 3G2
3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. Flash Video and 3GP and 3G2 are digital container formats.
See Flash Video and 3GP and 3G2
3GPP
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is an umbrella term for a number of standards organizations which develop protocols for mobile telecommunications.
7-Zip
7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives".
See also
Adobe Flash
- Action Message Format
- ActionScript
- Adobe Animate
- Adobe Flash
- Adobe Flash Lite
- Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder
- Adobe Flash Player
- Adobe Flex
- Adobe Media Server
- Adobe SWC file
- Adobe Scout
- COLT (software)
- Comparison of HTML5 and Flash
- CrossBridge
- FDB (file format)
- FHTML
- Flash MP3 Player
- Flash Video
- Flash animation
- Flash cartoons
- Flash games
- Flashpoint Archive
- FutureWave Software
- Gameswf
- Gnash (software)
- Google Swiffy
- Lightspark
- List of Adobe Flash software
- Local shared object
- MTASC
- Ming library
- RTMPDump
- Real-Time Messaging Protocol
- Red Room Curse
- Ruffle (software)
- SWF
- SWFObject
- SWFTools
- Sandro Corsaro
- Scalable Inman Flash Replacement
- Shumway (software)
- Stage3D
- Swfmill
- Tamarin (software)
- Thoughts on Flash
Digital container formats
- 3GP and 3G2
- ANIM
- Adobe Captivate
- Advanced Systems Format
- AnIML
- Annodex
- Au file format
- Audio Interchange File Format
- Audio Video Interleave
- Audio file format
- Bink Video
- CDXL
- Comparison of video container formats
- Compound File Binary Format
- Container format
- Core Audio Format
- Dialogic ADPCM
- DivX
- Flash Video
- ISO base media file format
- ITunes LP
- M4V
- MP4 file format
- MPEG
- MPEG media transport
- MPEG program stream
- MPEG transport stream
- MPEG-7
- MSSTYLES
- MVI
- Matroska
- Ogg
- QuickTime File Format
- RMVB
- RealMedia
- SNP file format
- Screencast
- Smacker video
- VOB
- WAV
- WMA Convert
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video
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