Lightspark

Free and open source SWF player
Lightspark
Lightspark logo
Developer(s)Alessandro Pignotti
Stable release
0.8.7[1] / May 28, 2023; 11 months ago (2023-05-28)
Repository
  • github.com/lightspark/lightspark Edit this at Wikidata
Written inC++
Operating systemLinux, FreeBSD, Windows
PlatformIA-32, x86-64
Size21 MiB (Win32), 22.8 MiB (Win64)
Available inEnglish
TypeMultimedia
LicenseLGPLv3
Websitelightspark.github.io

Lightspark is a free and open-source SWF player released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.

Features

Lightspark supports most of ActionScript 3.0 and has an NPAPI plug-in.[2] It will fall back on Gnash, a free SWF player on ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 (AVM1) code.

Lightspark supports OpenGL-based rendering and LLVM-based ActionScript execution and uses OpenGL shaders (GLSL). The player is compatible with H.264 Flash videos on YouTube.

Portability

The Lightspark player is completely portable.[3] It has been successfully built on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) on PowerPC, x86, ARM and AMD64 architectures.[4] Lightspark has a Win32 branch for Microsoft Visual Studio[5] and introduced a Mozilla-compatible plug-in for Windows in version 0.5.3.

See also

  • Free and open-source software portal

References

  1. ^ "Release 0.8.7 · lightspark/lightspark". GitHub. 2023-05-28. Archived from the original on 2023-05-31. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
  2. ^ "Lightspark flash player continues to advance". Linux.be. 2010-07-09. Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
  3. ^ Forster, Christopher (2011-01-04). "Lightspark Windows port". Launchpad. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
  4. ^ Monoses, Jani (2011-03-15). "0.4.6-0ubuntu1 : lightspark package : Ubuntu". Launchpad. Archived from the original on 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
  5. ^ "Email Archive: lightspark-devel (read-only)". SourceForge. 2010-08-02. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2010-09-03.

Further reading

  • Willis, Nathan (2012-11-21). "Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway". LWN.net. Archived from the original on 2013-03-30. Retrieved 2014-06-13.

External links

  • Official website
  • Developer's blog
  • Lightspark at GitHub
  • Lightspark at Launchpad
  • Lightspark on SourceForge
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