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,
most capable of the free players.
supports SWF v7 features, and many v8.5

(./)

n.a

0.7.2

0.8.4

GplFlash

GplFlash : Early 2006, this attempt was ditched in favour of gnash.

(./)

0.4.13

0.4.13

n.a

SwfDec

swfdec supports most of v7 SWF.
Integrates with gstreamer

(./)

0.6.0-2

0.8.2

FlashPlayer

Adobe's flash player (formerly Macromedia)

X-(

{X} deprecated
must be removed or use FlashPlayer

not available. see Backports

SWF Tools

Packaging

todo

hxdt, aflax, flvtool2, svg2swf, asdt, sswf.

in progress

as2api.

Links