Save videos, RTMP streams, external resources for SWF filesĭownload videos and soundtracks from YouTube Ad banners, as well as embedded video and audio players are created with this technology too. SWF format originated with FutureWave Software, then transferred to Macromedia, and is currently Adobe product.Īdobe Flash is a multimedia software platform used to create animations, rich Internet applications, web presentations, games, etc. It is a very popular Flash media file format widely used for Flash animation based on vector & raster graphics, as well as for Flash menus, buttons, banners. These formats are used by most popular video websites as YouTube, VEVO, Hulu, Metacafe, Yahoo! Video, etc. Both of them are developed by Adobe Systems. Two different video file formats are known as Flash video – FLV & F4V. The encoding manner for the audio & video data within these video files is the same as within SWF files. Flash Video is used for delivery of video over the web with the help of Adobe Flash Player version 6 and later.