ADOBE FLASH

Hi!
Will Flash film FLV be playable in MPC-HC from 2021, when Adobe cutting it off?
If yes, can I uninstall Adobe Flash?

Playback of .FLV files does not use the Adobe Flash plugin at all. It never has. So yes, you can uninstall it.

Only .SWF files use Adobe Flash plugin.

I often play .SWF files through MPC-HC from K-Lite Codec Pack. Will it still be possible next year? Is there anything that can be done to maintain compatibility? Will older versions of Flash / MPC-HC/K-Lite from now on provide better support than more recent versions?

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/fp_32_air_32_release_notes.html wrote:Adobe will no longer support Flash Player after December 31 2020, and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12 2021; Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems.

Current version of MPC-HC is still fully compatible with the Flash plugin. No reason to use an old version.

Yes, recent versions of the Flash plugin have a timebomb in its code that will make it stop working. I don't know if that also affects playback of local files. You could test that by setting the date on your computer beyond January 12 2021, and see if it still works or not. You could use the same trick to make it work again in 2021 by setting date back to 2020.

Version 32.0.0.363 of the plugin is supposedly the last one that did not yet have the timebomb.

There are several emulators available that can be used to open SWF files. For example Ruffle:
https://ruffle.rs/

China version of flash is still supported, there is a clean version here: https://github.com/CleanFlash/installer
Latest version is currently 34.0.0.184

The CleanFlash support website has been taken down..
https://github.com/CleanFlash/installer is no more...

any suggestions?

ale5000 wrote:China version of flash is still supported, there is a clean version here: https://github.com/CleanFlash/installer
Latest version is currently 34.0.0.184

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The CleanFlash support website has been taken down..
https://github.com/CleanFlash/installer is no more...