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<h2 id="technical">Technical</h2> <p>Swfdec is a library that can be used to play <a href="/facts/SWF/5qwLlUC5">Flash files</a>. There is a standalone player and a <a href="/facts/Mozilla/FevL9Itn">Mozilla</a> plugin that uses the library. Swfdec supports Flash through version 4, and most features of Flash through version 9. The player was routinely updated to support the latest features demanded by video players, resulting in most (including <a href="/facts/YouTube/db276jst">YouTube</a>, Google Video, Lulu.tv, AOL video, and CNN video) working at any given time. </p> <h2 id="linux-support">Linux support</h2> <p>Swfdec was chosen in 2007 as the Flash player for <a href="/facts/Fedora_(operating_system)/LJ2ocge5">Fedora</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> and it has been ported to <a href="/facts/DirectFB/LcCkaDg1">DirectFB</a> for embedded use alongside its <a href="/facts/X11/ac2vRIQL">X11</a> and <a href="/facts/GTK%2B/oLpVm9pp">GTK+</a> bindings. It uses the <a href="/facts/Cairo_(graphics)/FuAWHozI">Cairo graphics library</a> for rendering, <a href="/facts/GStreamer/34EkSQAf">GStreamer</a> for decoding audio and video,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> and <a href="/facts/PulseAudio/euEHeBCe">PulseAudio</a>, <a href="/facts/Open_Sound_System/c0lnCaK7">OSS</a>, or <a href="/facts/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture/7c0rSyPv">ALSA</a> for audio playback. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>swfdec.freedesktop.org <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080820015503/http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20080820015503/http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>The Swfdec-commits Archives <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/swfdec-commits/" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/swfdec-commits/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Fedora 9 Swfdec Feature Page <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Swfdec" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Swfdec</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Jonathan Corbet (2007-04-04). "Two approaches to Flash". LWN.net. <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/228637/" target="_blank">https://lwn.net/Articles/228637/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>