Adobe Flash will disappear from the web in two years
A recent report by Encoding.com estimated that Adobe Flash will no longer be used for the management of online content within the next two years. The H.264 codec still dominates the segment, but more and more online video in the future will use codec WebM and HEVC.
Too many people to dislike Adobe Flash particularly for the now famous ” heaviness ” and the impact on the resources of the fixed and mobile devices that use it for viewing online content, from videos. Who calls for the definitive departure from Adobe Flash has a new date to keep in mind, one that coincides with the next two years.
According to the recent report from Encoding.com, which took into consideration the average transmitted online by over 3000 broadcasters and publishers in the course of 2015, will be needed, tentatively, still twenty-four months before saying good-bye to Flash, which is still used for management of advertisement and in legacy browsers, but the days are numbered, as evidenced by the recent trend. During 2015, the videos in FLV (Flash Video) accounted for only 6% of the total amount of mobile and web video analyzed, declining value of 15% compared to 2014.
The most widely used video codec remains the H.264, which is used in 72% of online videos published during 2015. A result in part determined by your choice of major brands, such as Apple and Google to use its technology. Among emerging codec, but well-placed for future growth figure WebM: 12% of online videos of 2015 have used this codec, which has the advantage of being distributed without licensing fees for use. WebM owes part of its spread thanks to the use of the HTML5 video management in the Chrome, Firefox and Opera browser.
H.265 / HEVEC, heir to the H.264 codec, has been used in the same Adobe Flash measurement – 6% of all analyzed online video – but there is to say that the trends are very different. As the report says, more and more devices support the content in 4K and more videos are distributed in the network supporting this resolution.
The codec HEVEC well suited to managing content in 4K by optimizing bandwidth consumption, but growth continues to be limited due to poor adoption of the top hi-tech industry brand. An important contribution to its spread could come from Apple, which has already been used to manage the video flow from Facetime with the new iPhone, and that uses the Netflix for streaming video in 4K.
