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Short:Flash (SWF) format file player v. 1.6
Author:72207.463 at compuserve.com (Mike Steed)
Uploader:imax9 narod ru (Maxim Ilyin)
Type:gfx/show
Version:1.6
Requires:MorphOS
Architecture:ppc-morphos
Date:2009-12-18
Download:http://aminet.net/gfx/show/FlashPlayer_mos.lha - View contents
Readme:http://aminet.net/gfx/show/FlashPlayer_mos.readme
Downloads:2444

MOS:
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It is a MorphOS port (18-Dec-2009) by Maxim Ilyin.
Thanks to Mike Steed for collaboration.
Visit the homepage at
http://imax9.narod.ru/
http://www.rekom.ru/~imax

Introduction:
-------------

FlashPlayer is a player for Adobe's "flash" interactive animation format,
also known as SWF. The flash format was originally invented as a very
bandwidth-efficient means for delivering animation across the Internet.
It has since grown into an interactive presentation format, complete with
its own scripting language.

Like all flash animation players for the Amiga, FlashPlayer is based on the
open-source SWF library by Olivier Debon. FlashPlayer has made many
improvements to the original SWF library, and has wrapped around it a
full-featured GUI. However, despite the improvements, FlashPlayer still
suffers many of the limitations of the SWF library, including limited or
missing support for many of the newer additions to the flash format.

This is the standalone version of FlashPlayer. The standalone version is
capable of playing flash animations without the use of any other program.
FlashPlayer is also available separately as an IBrowse plugin, which allows
flash animations to be viewed as part of a web page. The plugin of course
requires IBrowse.

The source code for both FlashPlayer and the modified SWF library are
available in a separate archive, FlashPlayerSrc.lha.

Features:
---------

- Fairly complete support for Flash 1 through Flash 3 formats

  Most of these older animations will play pretty much as intended.

- Limited support for Flash 4 and up

  Does not support scripting, so while it will not malfunction when
  presented with a newer animation, it may not play it as intended. Newer
  animations may play just fine, however, if they don't use any of the
  unsupported features (I've seen Flash 8 and Flash 9 animations that work
  fine with FlashPlayer).

- Uses render.library and guigfx.library (included) for best image quality

  Can play flash animations on any screen, from two color low-res OCS to
  24-bit graphics cards. Supports OCS, ECS, AGA, CyberGraphics, and Picasso
  96. Uses dithering for improved display quality on color-mapped screens.

- Public and custom screen support

  Can open on the Workbench or on a web browser's screen, or can open its
  own screen, in any resolution or format.

- Uses AHI for flexible audio output

  Plays sound on any hardware for which AHI has a driver. Supports 16-bit
  audio.

- Uses openurl.library for browser support

  Allows any supported browser to visit web pages linked to by a flash
  animation. (The plugin offers even better support for IBrowse users.)

- Built-in decoding of MP3 sounds

  Contains an integrated version of the open-source MAD MP3 decoder; does
  not require mpega.library or other external decoder.

- Support for alternate hardware platforms

  Because it does not depend on native Amiga hardware for graphics or
  sound, FlashPlayer works with Amiga emulators and with the latest Amiga
  hardware (it has been ported to MorphOS with minimal effort, and runs
  under emulation on UAE and the AmigaOne).

- Runs from Workbench or shell

  Can be run in any of the normal ways, including via the WB 3.5+ default
  icon system (default icon included), and as a MIME-driven player for a
  web browser (instructions included). If run on the Workbench screen,
  files can be played by dropping them on the FlashPlayer window.

- Mouse, menu, and keyboard control of the flash animation

  Control the animation with the mouse, or use the keyboard and menus to
  stop, start, frame advance, and rewind the animation. Zoom in on the
  animation, and scroll around within the zoomed-in frame.

- Configurable, for maximum flexibility

  Uses tooltypes or command-line arguments to set the screen type, the
  playback quality, the size and scale (enlarged or reduced) of the
  animation, enable or disable sound, streaming sound, looping, and url
  support, adjust the sound buffer size, and set the diagnostic output
  level.

New for version 1.6:
--------------------

- Added partial support for edit text fields. Without scripting FlashPlayer
  can't actually edit text, but these fields are also used many times to
  display static text, and this text is now visible.

- Added partial support for device fonts (text that displays using plat-
  form-native fonts, rather than fonts that are included as part of the
  animation), which are often used by edit text fields. FlashPlayer doesn't
  actually use Amiga fonts, but instead uses a built-in simulated device
  font.

- FlashPlayer now recognizes the difference between menu buttons and push
  buttons; push buttons "capture" the mouse, so the button will remain
  active if the mouse is moved off of the button while held down. Any
  actions triggered by this activity will occur, rather than being ignored.

- If a button release sound is present it will be played; previously it was
  ignored. 

- The new JPEG image type added to Flash 10 files will be displayed, though
  without the deblocking filter associated with the image.

- Many bugs involved with operating an animation's buttons using the key-
  board instead of the mouse have been fixed, so this feature is actually
  usable now.

- The display now refreshes properly when using the keyboard to zoom into
  and scroll around in an animation, making this feature usable at last.

Limitations:
------------

- Does not support many of the newer additions to the flash format

  Chief among these is the scripting language first added to Flash 4, and
  extended in newer flash versions. Some animations depend on scripting and
  will not run without it, while others use it only as an enhancement, and
  can still be viewed to some extent even without scripting support.

- Resource-intensive

  While the flash files themselves can be small, decoding and presenting
  them requires lots of memory and lots of processor cycles. A fairly high-
  end system is required to play any but the smallest and simplest anim-
  ations, and even a 68060 is unable to play most animations at their
  intended speed (or to play streaming sound without dropouts).

- Limited browser integration

  The flash format was really intended to be played from within a browser,
  using an integrated plugin. Lacking this ability, FlashPlayer can only
  act as an assistant to a browser, rather than as an integrated part of
  it. This makes viewing flash animations on the web much harder than it
  ought to be. The plugin version of FlashPlayer solves this problem, if
  you use IBrowse.

Requirements:
-------------

FlashPlayer runs under AmigaOS 3.0 and above. It requires guigfx.library
and render.library, both included. It makes use of, but does not require,
AHI and openurl.library.

FlashPlayer requires a 68020 or better processor, with an FPU. FlashPlayer
is not available for the PowerPC, as I don't have a PPC system to develop
it on; however it runs under emulation on AmigaOS 4 and UAE, and has been
ported to MorphOS.

Author:
-------

Mike Steed
72207.463 at compuserve.com

SWF library written by Olivier Debon; modified by Mike Steed



Contents of gfx/show/FlashPlayer_mos.lha
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[generic]                 7014   17992  39.0% -lh5- 4902 Dec  1  2007 FlashPlayer/COPYING
[generic]                 2702    3629  74.5% -lh5- 7e7d Dec  1  2007 FlashPlayer/def_swf.info
[generic]                26388   74722  35.3% -lh5- 01c2 Oct 24 15:36 FlashPlayer/FlashPlayer.guide
[generic]                 1977    2414  81.9% -lh5- 60a3 Oct 24 16:19 FlashPlayer/FlashPlayer.guide.info
[generic]               239046  492560  48.5% -lh5- fe33 Dec 18 14:57 FlashPlayer/FlashPlayer_mos
[generic]                 2272    3534  64.3% -lh5- 9e5d Dec 16 17:03 FlashPlayer/FlashPlayer_mos.info
[generic]                 3176    7408  42.9% -lh5- 34bf Dec 18 15:18 FlashPlayer/FlashPlayer_mos.readme
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