Developers

This page contains information for people interested in using swfdec in their own products or developing swfdec itself.

License

Swfdec is licensed under the LGPL. For audio and video decoding it may optionally make use of libraries with different licenses. Currently MAD can be used for decoding MP3. If you do not want these restrictions, you can disable support for it.

State

This list does not claim to be up to date or inclusive of all important parts of Flash. This list was last updated for version 0.4.1

Part	Status	Comment
file format	complete up to v7
rendering	complete up to v7	Morphshapes seem to work, but noone investigated them thoroughly yet
sound	streams complete, events basic	the Sound Actionscript object and envelopes are not implemented
video	playback complete (incl FLV)	support for AS objects is missing, so almost no videos from the web works
event order	complete for Movieclip	support for key events, onData and other objects is missing
Actionscript interpreter	new in 0.4.2	interprets Actionscript and does so nicely. Support for ?DoInitAction is missing
Actionscript opcodes	50% of v7 opcodes implemented	the harder opcodes are still missing, mostly Flash 6 and 7
Movieclip AS object	positioning and events complete	various functions aren't implemented
Button AS object	positioning and events complete	identical to Movieclip AS object
?TextField object	display complete	no editing, and lots of HTML missing
?TextField AS object	positioning and events complete	identical to Movieclip AS object
Color, Mouse AS objects	complete	support for the "small" classes should work
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There's a separate page about the MozillaPlugin.