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 (browsers plugins)

Player

Description

Free

Etch

Lenny

Mozilla

Konqueror

Mozilla

Konqueror

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

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n.a.

n.a

[wiki:mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.7.2]

[wiki:konqueror-plugin-gnash 0.7.2]

GplFlash

[http://gplflash.sf.net ?GplFlash] : Early 2006, this attempt was ditched in favour of gnash.

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[wiki:libflash-mozplugin 0.4.13]

[wiki:libflash-mozplugin 0.4.13]

[wiki:libflash-mozplugin 0.4.13]

[wiki:libflash-mozplugin 0.4.13]

SwfDec

[http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/ swfdec] supports most of v7 SWF. ?BR Integrates with gstreamer

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[wiki:swfdec-mozilla 0.6.0-2]

[wiki:swfdec-mozilla 0.6.0-2]

["FlashPlayer"]

[http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ Adobe's flash player] (formerly Macromedia)

X-(

{X} [http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080217 deprecated], ?BR must be removed

not available. see ["Backports"]

SWF Tools

Packaging

todo

[http://hxdt.sourceforge.net hxdt], [http://osflash.org/aflax aflax], [http://osflash.org/flvtool2 flvtool2], [http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/svg2swf svg2swf], [http://osflash.org/asdt asdt], [http://osflash.org/sswf sswf].

in progress

[http://bugs.debian.org/337074 as2api].

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