2 Swfdec is a decoder/renderer for Macromedia Flash animations. The decoding and
3 rendering engine is provided in a library that can be used by other
6 An additional library named swfdec-gtk is provided for easy integration of
7 Swfdec into Gtk applications. This library is what developers most likely want
8 to target their applications at. Building this library can be disabled.
10 Swfdec is intended to be used as a replacement for the default Flash player.
11 While it is not yet a 100% complete replacement, a big focus is on stability
12 and security. So it is deemed to be suitable for use in production
15 The library however is still in heavy development. Because of that, the
16 Programming interface will change between major versions. No guarantees are
17 made about the API. However, during stable release cycles, the API and ABI are
18 guaranteed to stay stable.
20 Swfdec contains some applications for testing and debugging the library. These
21 are available in the player/, test/ and tools/ directories. They are not
22 installed. Most of them require the swfdec-gtk library.
24 The test/ directory contains subdirectories that run automated tests with the
25 provided SWF files in the directory. See the README files in those directories
26 for details on how to run or add these tests.
28 If you want to playing Flash files in your web browser, you need a browser
29 plugin additional to this library. The plugins are shipped in separate
30 packages, like swfdec-mozilla. You can get them at the same location as swfdec.
35 The Swfdec homepage is at http://swfdec.freedesktop.org
36 A bugtracker can be found at https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org
37 A mailing list is available at swfdec@lists.freedesktop.org
38 For information about subscribing or unsubscribing from this list see
39 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/swfdec
40 The development source code is kept in git. The following command gets it:
41 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/swfdec
46 see the file MAINTAINERS
51 - A few rare object types are not handled at all. They are ignored.
53 - SWF files that use Flash generally heavily depend on ActionScript.
54 Support for ActionScript is currently incomplete. Unsupported functions in
57 - If any known unsupported behaviour is encountered, Swfdec will print a
58 notice to stderr and try to interpret the file nonetheless. If you
59 encounter a file with only some unsupported things, it may be a good idea
60 to open a feature request bug and provide the file. The developers are
61 always interested in files that motivate them to do little steps.
66 cairo (>= 1.2.0 - >= 1.8.0 recommended) with png support enabled
69 Pangocairo (>= 1.16.0) - this is provided by Pango
72 GStreamer (>= 0.10.15 - optional, required for various audio and video formats)
74 GTK+ (>= 2.8.0 - used by swfdec-gtk)
75 libsoup (>= 2.4.0 - used by swfdec-gtk)
76 ALSA (>= 1.0 - optional, required for sound output by swfdec-gtk)