Swfdec
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Swfdecis an outdatedfree and open-sourcereplacement forAdobe Flash Player.It runs onLinuxandFreeBSDand is distributed under the terms of theGNU Lesser General Public License(LGPL).[1]Its last release was 0.8.4, on December 21, 2008and latest in stable 0.9.2 of 2008-11-11.
Development of Swfdec has stopped. As of March 2016, the most recent commit to its Git repository was in December 2009.[2]
Technical
[edit]Swfdec is a library that can be used to playFlash files.There is a standalone player and aMozillaplugin that uses the library. Swfdec supports Flash through version 4,[citation needed]and most features of Flash through version 9. The player was routinely updated to support the latest features demanded by video players, resulting in most (includingYouTube,Google Video, Lulu.tv, AOL video, and CNN video) working at any given time.
Linux support
[edit]Swfdec was chosen in 2007 as the Flash player forFedora,[3]and it has been ported toDirectFBfor embedded use alongside itsX11andGTK+bindings. It uses theCairo graphics libraryfor rendering,GStreamerfor decoding audio and video,[4]andPulseAudio,OSS,orALSAfor audio playback.
References
[edit]- ^swfdec.freedesktop.org
- ^The Swfdec-commits Archives
- ^Fedora 9 Swfdec Feature Page
- ^Jonathan Corbet (2007-04-04)."Two approaches to Flash".LWN.net.
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