Alternative Flash Runtimes
Several third-party tools are able to use and generate SWF files, and some tools such as IrfanView are capable of rendering SWF files, through the use of Flash Player. Flash Player cannot ship as part of a pure open source, or completely free operating system, as its distribution is bound to the Macromedia Licensing Program and subject to proposition first from Adobe. There is no complete free and open source software replacement which offers all the functionality of the latest version of Adobe Flash Player
Gnash is an active project that aims to create a software player and browser plugin replacement for the Adobe Flash Player. Despite potential patent worries because of the proprietary nature of the files involved, Gnash supports most SWFv7 features but does not fully support SWF v7, SWF v8-files, or the '9'th generation. Gnash runs on Windows, Linux and other platforms for the 32-bit, 64-bit, and other operating systems.
Swfdec is an open-source alternative standalone flash player available for the Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
Lightspark is a free and open source SWF player. It supports the latest ActionScript 3.
Scaleform GFx is a commercial alternative Flash player that features full hardware acceleration using the GPU and has high conformance with both Flash 10 ActionScript 3. and Flash 8 AS2. Scaleform GF is a game development middleware solution that helps create graphical user interfaces or HUDs within 3D video games.
Adobe has a tool that converts Flash to HTML5, also Google's website has an experimental tool that's does the same.
Shumway is an open source Flash Player released by Mozilla in November 2012. It is built in JavaScript and is thus compatible with modern web-browsers.
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