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|| Player|| Description || Free || Etch || Lenny || Testing ||
||Gnash || [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/|Gnash]] is a Free Flash movie player from GNU,<<BR>> most capable of the free players.<<BR>> supports SWF v7 features, and many v8.5 || (./) || n/a || [[DebianPkg:lenny/konqueror-plugin-gnash|0.8.4]] || [[DebianPkg:squeeze/konqueror-plugin-gnash|0.8.7]] ||
||!GplFlash ||[[http://gplflash.sf.net|GplFlash]]: ''Early 2006, this attempt was ditched in favour of gnash.'' || (./) || [[DebianPkg:etch/libflash-mozplugin|0.4.13]] || n/a || n/a ||
||!SwfDec || [[http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/|swfdec]] supports most of v7 SWF. <<BR>> Integrates with gstreamer. ''No longer developed.'' || (./) || [[DebianPkg:etch/swf-player|0.3.6]] || [[DebianPkg:lenny/swfdec-mozilla|0.6.0]] || n/a (DebianBug:571666) ||
||[[Flash
Player]] || [[http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/|Adobe Flash Player]] (formerly Macromedia Flash Player) || X-( || {X} [[http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080217|deprecated]], <<BR>> '''must''' be removed or use [[FlashPlayer]]||<-2> ~-not available. see [[Backports]]-~||
|| '''Player''' || '''Description''' || '''Free''' || '''Squeeze''' || '''Lenny''' ||
||Gnash || [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/|Gnash]] is a Free Flash movie player from GNU,<<BR>> most capable of the free players.<<BR>> supports SWF v7 features, and many v8.5 || (./) || [[DebianPkg:squeeze/konqueror-plugin-gnash|0.8.8]] || [[DebianPkg:lenny/konqueror-plugin-gnash|0.8.4]] ||
||[[FlashPlayer]] || [[http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/|Adobe Flash Player]] (formerly Macromedia Flash Player) || X-( || see [[FlashPlayer]] || [[DebianPkg:lenny-backports/flashplugin-nonfree|backports]] ||
||!SwfDec || [[http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/|swfdec]] supports most of v7 SWF. <<BR>> Integrates with gstreamer. ''No longer developed.'' || (./) || n/a (DebianBug:571666) || [[DebianPkg:lenny/swfdec-mozilla|0.6.0]] ||
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=== in progress ===

 * as2api (DebianBug:337074)

Translation(s): none


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)

X-(

see FlashPlayer

backports

SwfDec

swfdec supports most of v7 SWF.
Integrates with gstreamer. No longer developed.

(./)

n/a (571666)

0.6.0

  • Legend: (./) free ; X-( 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.

Packaging

todo