Adobe Shockwave Player (Macromedia Shockwave) is used to play
Shockwave multimedia on the Internet. It includes
Shockwave Player - an integrated
player and tools for creating shockwave
content -
Adobe Director. According to information from
Adobe,
in 2008, Shockwave Player was installed worldwide on approximately 450 million PCs.
It is rightfully recognized as the standard player for playing Internet multimedia content. Unlike Flash, Shockwave has unique features that make it indispensable for creating interactive products for e-business, various games, and advanced multimedia.
The player allows users to view interactive web content (advertisements, business presentations, games, entertainment projects, etc.) within the program itself and directly in the browser. It works independently and with browsers such as Netscape, Opera, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and other navigators.
Main applications: 3D vector animation, video playback, games, interactive web applications. It is used as a plugin for browsers.
Adobe Flash is often confused with Shockwave - these are players with different functionalities. The Shockwave player is more advanced than Flash. It supports: parsing of HTML and XML manipulations, multi-user chat. It allows programming of vector shape control, a powerful and extensive scripting language, remote file search, and raster manipulation. The browser itself does not do this. Shockwave files are also streaming, but unlike Flash, they do not start immediately."
