List of codecs supported by Adobe Flash Player
The following table lists the supported codecs and their earliest required SWF file format and Adobe Flash Player versions:
| Video Codecs | SWF file format version (publish version) |
Minimum Flash Player version (required for playback) |
| Sorenson Spark |
6 |
6 |
| On2 VP6 |
6 |
8 |
| H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) |
9 |
9.0.115.0* |
| Audio Codecs | SWF file format version (publish version) |
Minimum Flash Player version (required for playback) |
| ADPCM |
6 |
6 |
| MP3 |
6 |
6 |
| HE-AAC (MPEG-4 Part 3) |
9 |
9.0.115.0* |
*Flash Player plays files containing H.264 and AAC that are derived from the standard MPEG-4 container format such as F4V, MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP, 3G2.
Flash Player 9(v 9.0.115.0)supports playback of the following subsets of the MPEG-4 standards:
| MPEG-4 Standard | Flash Player Update 3 |
| ISO/IEC 14496-3 (Audio AAC) |
AAC Main; AAC LC; SBR |
| ISO/IEC 14496-10 (Video AVC) |
Base (BP); Main (MP); High (HiP). All levels are supported. |
| ISO/IEC 14496-12 (Container) |
1 Audio track; 1 Video track |
| 3GPP TS 26.245 (Timed text format) |
Full support. |
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