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| Developer(s) | Alessandro Pignotti |
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| Stable release | 0.8.7 [1] / May 28, 2023 |
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| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, Windows |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Size | 21 MiB (Win32), 22.8 MiB (Win64) |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Multimedia |
| License | LGPLv3 |
| Website | lightspark |
Lightspark is a free and open-source SWF player released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.
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.
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.
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