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The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project

Posted by Unknown on from the now-there-are-four dept.

theweatherelectric writes "Mozilla is looking for contributors interested in working on Shumway. Mozilla's Jet Villegas writes, 'Shumway is an experimental web-native (Javascript) runtime implementation of the SWF file format. It is developed as a free and open source project sponsored by Mozilla Research. The project has two main goals: 1. Advance the open web platform to securely process rich media formats that were previously only available in closed and proprietary implementations. 2. Offer a runtime processor for SWF and other rich media formats on platforms for which runtime implementations are not available.'" See also: Gnash and Lightspark.

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  1. SWFDec - SWF Decoder - another SWF implementation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/

  2. Re:Sounds great, would prefer ActionScript / Flex by alostpacket · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry to reply to myself, but it seems I'm tired and wasnt thinking -- Big clarification: The Shumway player does support AS -- as it support SWFs, and thus naturally, AS3.

    --
    PocketPermissions Android Permission Guide
  3. Re:Bugs in the demo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I get ~22 FPS, on Chromium in GNU+Linux/x86_64

  4. Re:With a name like Shumway... by DudemanX · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think it's an ALF reference. ALF's "real" name is Gordon Shumway.

  5. Re:Oh, boy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is simply not true.
    I read New Yorker magazine in pdf.js, every file is ~100MB and ~100 pages and it's not slow at all.
    In chrome, I should add.