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 libswfdec-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 The library is still in heavy development. The intended audience are developers
11 or people using it for pretested Flash animations (think embedded here). If you
12 use it on unknown content, expect it to have issues and don't be surprised if
13 it crashes. If you encounter such a crash however, make sure to file a bug
16 Swfdec contains some applications for testing and debugging the library. These
17 are availabole in the player/ and test/ directory. They are not installed. The
18 applications in the player/ directory require GTK and ALSO to build, while the
19 library does not. So if you are packaging Swfdec, you probably do not want to
20 make it depend on GTK or ALSA.
22 The test/ directory contains subdirectories that run automated tests with the
23 provided SWF files in the directory. See the README files in those directories
24 for details on how to run or add these tests.
26 If you want to playing Flash files in your web browser, you need a browser
27 plugin additional to this library. The plugins are shipped in seperate
28 packages, like swfdec-mozilla. You can get them at the same location as swfdec.
33 The Swfdec homepage is at http://swfdec.freedesktop.org
34 A bugtracker can be found at https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org
35 A mailing list is available at swfdec@lists.freedesktop.org
36 For information about subscribing or unsubscribing from this list see
37 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/swfdec
38 The development source code is kept in git. The following command gets it:
39 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/swfdec
44 see the file MAINTAINERS
49 - A few rare object types are not handled at all. They are ignored.
51 - SWF files that use Flash generally heavily depend on ActionScript features.
52 Support for ActionScript is currently incomplete. Unsupported scripts are
55 - If any known unsupported behaviour is encountered, Swfdec will print a
56 notice to stderr and try to interpret the file nonetheless. If you
57 encounter a file with only some unsupported things, it may be a good idea
58 to open a feature request bug and provide the file. The developers are
59 always interested in files that motivate them to do little steps.
64 cairo (>= 1.2.0 - >= 1.4.0 recommended)
66 Pangocairo (aka Pango with cairo support)
69 FFMpeg (>= 0.4.8 - optional, required for various audio and video formats)
70 GStreamer (>= 0.10.11 - optional, required for various audio and video formats)
71 MAD (>= 0.15.1b - optional, required for MP3 audio format support)
73 GTK+ (>= 2.0 - used by libswfdec-gtk)
74 ALSA (>= 1.0 - used by libswfdec-gtk)