Flash

Flash is a web platform based on a VM installed in browsers. It has seen enormous uptake across the web for streaming video, games and dynamic content (before the popularity of AJAX).

Flash Players (browser plugins)

Player	Description	Free	Squeeze	Lenny
Gnash	Gnash is a Free Flash movie player from GNU, most capable of the free players. supports SWF v7 features, and many v8.5		0.8.8	0.8.4
FlashPlayer	Adobe Flash Player (formerly Macromedia Flash Player)		see FlashPlayer	backports
SwfDec	swfdec supports most of v7 SWF. Integrates with gstreamer. No longer developed.		n/a (571666)	0.6.0

Legend: free ; non-free/proprietary software.

SWF Tools

flasm - Assembler and disassembler for Flash (SWF) bytecode
flvtool2 - A manipulation tool for flash video files
haxe - Web-oriented universal programming language (Flash SWF, Ajax, etc.)
ming - Ming is an SWF (Flash) file format output library. It is written in C, with wrappers for C++, Perl, Python, PHP and experimental support for Ruby and Java.
mtasc - ActionScript 2 to Flash (SWF) compiler
pyvnc2swf - screen recording tool to SWF movie.
swfmill - xml2swf and swf2xml processor.

Flash

Flash

Flash Players (browser plugins)

SWF Tools

Packaging

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