2 Swfdec is a decoder/renderer for Macromedia Flash animations. The
3 decoding and rendering engine is provided in a library that can
4 be used by other applications. A Mozilla plugin is provided that
5 uses the library for playing SWF files in a
7 Swfdec also contains a GdkPixbuf loader module for SWF files, which
8 means that GTK+ themes can use SWF files as images. I have no clue
9 why someone would want to do this, but it's possible.
14 David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>
18 - If you install into /usr/local, your browser may have difficulty
19 finding the plugin. This can be solved for mozilla-based
20 browsers by adding /usr/local/lib/mozilla/plugins to the
21 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable.
23 - Sound output is handled by SDL, so the target device can be
24 chosen by setting the SDL_AUDIODRIVER environment variable.
29 - A few object types are not handled at all. They don't appear very
32 - SWF files that use Flash versions 5 and 6 are generally heavily
33 dependent on ActionScript2 features, which are rather buggy at
34 the moment. The default action is to stop playing if known-buggy
35 codepaths are used. This is a runtime switch, but it's likely
36 that only developers would want to change this behavior.