Shockwave (Director)

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'''Shockwave''' is a platform and format for multimedia applications, video games, etc. It was owned by Macromedia during most of its formative years, and is now owned by Adobe. It has many names, most of which involve permutations of the words "Macromedia", "Adobe", "Shockwave", and "Director". ''Director'' is the application usually used to develop it. It is distinct from [[SWF]] (Flash).
 
'''Shockwave''' is a platform and format for multimedia applications, video games, etc. It was owned by Macromedia during most of its formative years, and is now owned by Adobe. It has many names, most of which involve permutations of the words "Macromedia", "Adobe", "Shockwave", and "Director". ''Director'' is the application usually used to develop it. It is distinct from [[SWF]] (Flash).
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The format is based on the [[RIFF]] metaformat, but with data stored as big endian, (so the magic bytes are RIFX instead of RIFF)
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== Identifiers ==
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This format has three related extensions: DIR is uncompressed, DCR is compressed, and DXR is encrypted.
  
 
== Links ==
 
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* [[Wikipedia:Adobe Director]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Adobe Director]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Adobe Shockwave Player]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Adobe Shockwave Player]]
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* [https://github.com/eriksoe/Schockabsorber Schockabsorber] - Has some very rudimentary reverse engineering of the Director format.
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* [https://gist.github.com/TheCjw/b21d82dfe43107c58a6f Adobe Shockwave - A case study on memory disclosure] - This contains some useful specifics on the format, specifically for the purposes of building a security exploit.
  
 
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Revision as of 20:59, 12 January 2016

File Format
Name Shockwave (Director)
Ontology
Extension(s) .dcr, .dir, .dxr
PRONOM x-fmt/341, fmt/317, fmt/486
Released ≤1995
For Shockwave Flash, see SWF.

Shockwave is a platform and format for multimedia applications, video games, etc. It was owned by Macromedia during most of its formative years, and is now owned by Adobe. It has many names, most of which involve permutations of the words "Macromedia", "Adobe", "Shockwave", and "Director". Director is the application usually used to develop it. It is distinct from SWF (Flash).

The format is based on the RIFF metaformat, but with data stored as big endian, (so the magic bytes are RIFX instead of RIFF)

Identifiers

This format has three related extensions: DIR is uncompressed, DCR is compressed, and DXR is encrypted.

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