SWFStudio and MDM Zinc are two companies that can create OSX and Windows programs which embed Flash player and can interoperate with the underlying native application.NET Framework contains an ActiveX which one can use in developing Windows.Forms applications (maybe WPF too, but I never tried). For example Scaleform is a project which uses Flash player for rendering graphical interface in PC games. There were some other less known uses of Flash player. AIR is also the version that works on most desktops (sans Linux, where it was discontinued more then a year ago).
Standalone versions, however, have developed into AIR - this is how modern Flash on mobile devices works. There also has been players for mobile browsers, but all of them were discontinued at different times. Adobe also discontinued support for Linux version of NPAPI plugin. There existed standalone versions for Linux, but they have been discontinued recently. It can be a standalone program for Windows or OSX. It can be a NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) compatible plugin (one that runs in Mozilla browsers), a PPAPI compatible plugin (Pepper Plugin API, one that runs in Google Chrome), an ActiveX (Internet Explorer). but I don't really know what exactly the language it is using.įlash runtime can be distributed in different ways. There's also a cross-compiler project known as Alchemy, which can compile whatever language that can be compiled to LLVM assembler, but practically, mostly C / C++. But there's also Haxe, which can compile to Flash. We'll see.ĪctionScript is the major language for programming in Flash, just like Java is to JVM. Perhaps, if Flash technology survives the crisis, Lightspark seems like a promising project. Neither of them both can do much at present. Now, there has been attempts at making an alternative (opensource) Flash player, the older one is Gnash, the newer one is Lightspark.
One would write a video player in Flash the same way one would do it in Java or C#: you could use some ready-made components or design one from scratch. Flash is often used to do many other things on the web, like games or just useful interactive things like dressing rooms for online shops or collaborative software etc. Historically, for those not familiar with the technology from the inside, Flash has been linked to You-Tube and thus streaming videos, however, it is marginal to the technology in general.
It comes with some libraries able to play video, but those are too low-level for the end user to be able to watch video. Adobe Flash Player might be somewhat confusing name because it isn't really a player (not a media player like VLC or Winamp), it is a runtime like JVM (Java Virtual Machine) or CLR (Common Language Runtime).
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