How to Successfully Play Any SWF File on Windows 10?
Method 1: Convert SWF to Windows Video Format; Method 2: Install SWF Player
SWF format is an Adobe Flash file format and mainly used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript. SWF file can not be directly played on web browsers and you must install plugins, like Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Integrated Runtime, etc to play SWF files on web browsers. And it is harder to play SWF files on your Windows 10 and other devices and players, since all these devices, players and computer systems do not have native SWF support. So we will definitely fail to play our downloaded SWF files on our Windows 10, right? Yes, it is right, but there are many methods which can help you to easily play any SWF file on your Windows 10. Check them below.
Method 1: Convert SWF to Windows 10 Best Supported Video Format
SWF support is absent on Windows 10, but we can use a professional SWF to Windows 10 converter called Avdshare Video Converter to convert the unsupported SWF to Windows 10 more supported WMV, AVI, MPG etc. Believe me and there will be no quality loss if you use Avdshare Video Converter to convert your SWF file to Windows 10 supported video format. Also, this Avdshare Video Converter will give 60X faster conversion speed to convert SWF to WMV/AVI/MPG or convert MOV, FLV, RMVB, etc to WMV/AVI/MPG to enable any video format file compatible playback on Windows 10. And the conversion steps are also very simple. Check steps on converting SWF to Windows 10 WMV below.
Make Preparation: Free download SWF to Windows 10 Converter
Free download the professional SWF to Windows 10Converter - Avdshare Video Converter (for Windows, for Mac), install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.
Step 1 Import SWF file
You can click the Add File button to import any SWF file to this SWF to Windows 10 converter. Drag&Drop feature is also workable to import the SWF file to this SWF to Windows 10 converter.
Step 2 Targeted WMV as the output format
In this step, you only need to click the "Profile" button and directly select WMV as the output format from the "General Video" category.
Step 3 Complete the conversion
Complete SWF to Windows 10 WMV conversion by simply clicking the Convert button.
Method 2: Install SWF Player on Windows 10
Alternatively, you can also use a third player which supports SWF file to play your SWF files. And the following will recommend two widely used SWF players for your Windows 10.
iDealshare VideoGo
Besides converting SWF to Windows more supported AVI, WMV, MPG etc, iDealshare VideoGo also can directly play SWF file without conversion.
SWF File Player
SWF File Player is a freeware software which can quickly open SWF files locally and online. This SWF File Player can resize the window to fit for the SWF file and it provided many options to allow you to change the SWF file quality. You can download SWF File Player from its official website, install it on your Windows 10 computer and use it to play SWF file on your Windows 10.
Adobe Flash Player
As we know that SWF files are mostly created by Adobe and so do not doubt that the SWF files can be opened by Adobe Flash Player. You can use Adobe Flash Player as a browser extension or the standalone player to open your SWF files. And here if you want to play SWF files on your Windows 10 you can only use Adobe Flash Player as a standalone player. You can download Adobe Flash Player from https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html and choose the right Windows version to install on your Windows 10 and then use it to open your SWF files on your Windows 10 computer.