Adobe Media Encoder.exe, SWDNLD.exe, Adobe OnLocation.exe, recorder.exe or Adobe Extension Manager CS5.5.exe are the common file names to indicate the Adobe Shockwave Player installer. The latest version of Adobe Shockwave Player is supported on PCs running Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10, both 32 and 64-bit. Alternative spelling: Adobe Flash Player, Macromedia Flash Player, Flach player, Flashplayer, installflashplayer-32.0.0.445.exe, installflashplayer.exe Latest update on January 11, 2021 at 03:12 AM by David Webb.

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Adobe Shockwave Description

Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedia's first and most successful multimedia player prior to the introduction of Adobe Flash, called Macromedia Flash at that time. In an attempt to raise its brand profile all Macromedia players prepended Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s. Although this campaign was very successful and helped establish Shockwave Flash as a dominant multimedia plugin, Shockwave and Flash became more difficult to maintain as two separate products. In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins under the brand names Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Shockwave and Macromedia Flash.
Although Shockwave was designed for making a wide variety of online movies and animations, its actual use has become concentrated in the area of game development. Other features not replicated by Flash include a much faster rendering engine, including hardware-accelerated 3D, blend modes for layered display of graphic assets and support for various network protocols, including Internet Relay Chat. Furthermore Shockwave's functionality can be extended with so-called 'Xtras'. Unlike Flash, the Shockwave browser plugin is not available for Linux (or Solaris) despite vocal lobbying efforts by the Linux community[1].
According to Adobe, Macromedia Shockwave Player is available on 50.6% of Internet-enabled PCs (Shockwave Player Census). Macromedia Shockwave Player uses .DCR files created using the authoring tool Macromedia Director. Its MIME type is application/x-director.

Adobe Shockwave Comments

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Effective April 9, 2019, Adobe Shockwave will be discontinued and the Shockwave player for Windows will no longer be available for download. Companies with existing Enterprise licenses for Adobe Shockwave will continue to receive support until the end of their current contracts. Adobe continues to offer a rich set of content creation tools through Creative Cloud, including Adobe Animate CC for authoring interactive content for multiple platforms, such HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash/Adobe AIR, and others.

For more information, please see the FAQ.

2. Download the latest version of Shockwave Player

If you don't have the latest version, download it here: Adobe Shockwave Player download

3. Install Shockwave Player

After you download Shockwave Player, follow the installation instructions that appear on the download page.

Note:

(Windows 8 only) Ensure that you run the browser in Desktop mode to install and enable Shockwave Player.

For more information on the latest update to Adobe Shockwave Player, see Release Notes | Shockwave Player 12.

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4. Enable Shockwave Player in your browser

For Internet Explorer, see Enabling Shockwave Player | Internet Explorer.

For FireFox on any OS, see Enabling Shockwave Player | Firefox.

5. Verify if Shockwave Player is installed

If you see clouds moving in the animation below, congratulations, you have successfully installed Shockwave Player!

If you don't see the animation after completing all the steps, refresh this page using the icon below. For Windows 8, ensure that you view this page in Desktop mode to see the animation.

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