Stage 3D is an architecture for hardware accelerated graphics rendering developed that provides a set of low-level APIs that enable advanced 2D and 3D rendering capabilities across screens and devices (desktop, mobile, and TV). Stage 3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering (Player & AIR desktop + AIR for TV) Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) provides protection for streaming video across screens while eliminating the deployment complexity of a license server. New Flash Access content protection features include key rotation support, V3 license chaining, domain support and enhanced output protection and device filtering. Note: Flash Access for iOS is not supported at this time.įlash Access Content Protection Enhancements

In addition, content protection is now supported on tablet devices powered by the BlackBerry Tablet OS. The computationally lightweight JPEG-XR format provides more efficient compression than JPEG, enables both lossy and lossless compression support, and adds support for alpha channel transparency.īitmapData objects are no longer limited to a maximum resolution of 16 megapixels (16,777,215 pixels), and maximum bitmap width/height is no longer limited to 8,191 pixels, enabling the development of apps that utilize very large bitmaps.įlash Access Content Protection Support for Mobileįlash Access content protection support is now available on mobile devices including Android powered smartphones and tablets. Stream high-quality video from your computer's camera with higher compression efficiency and industry standard support, enabling both immersive real-time communications such as video chat/conferencing and live video broadcasts.įlash Player and AIR include support for the JPEG-XR advanced image compression standard (International Standard ISO/IEC 29199-2). H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras (desktop) More than 2,000 pieces of Flash media have been added to the archive. Fortunately, the Internet Archive is working to preserve some of the best Flash content so it won’t be lost to Father Time.

The software platform started to fall out of favor in the mid-2000s and has been on a downward trajectory ever since as alternatives like HTML5 gained support. As such, the company “strongly recommends” that all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems.Īdobe has been planning to sunset Flash for a few years now and arguably could have done so even sooner. Adobe will stop supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020, and will actively start blocking content from running in Flash Player from January 12, 2021.

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