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 |
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Mozilla |
Konqueror |
Mozilla |
Konqueror |
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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) |
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[http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080217 deprecated], ?BR must be removed |
not available. see ["Backports"] |
Legend : free ; non-free/proprietary software.
SWF Tools
mtasc : ActionScript 2 to Flash (SWF) compiler
flasm : Assembler and disassembler for Flash (SWF) bytecode
haxe : Web-oriented universal programming language (Flash SWF, Ajax, etc..)
src: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.
swfmill : xml2swf and swf2xml processor.
swftools : Collection of utilities for SWF file manipulation/creation.
pyvnc2swf : screen recording tool to SWF movie.
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].
Links
- Flash packaging Team :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-flash/ - debian-flash mailing list ?BR development and use of flash technologies on Debian