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 |
Testing |
Gnash |
Gnash is a Free Flash movie player from GNU, |
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n.a |
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GplFlash |
GplFlash : Early 2006, this attempt was ditched in favour of gnash. |
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n.a |
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SwfDec |
swfdec supports most of v7 SWF. |
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Adobe's flash player (formerly Macromedia) |
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deprecated, |
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
hxdt, aflax, flvtool2, svg2swf, asdt, sswf.
in progress
Links
- Flash packaging Team :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-flash/ - debian-flash mailing list
development and use of flash technologies on Debian