Swfdec is a decoder/renderer for Macromedia Flash animations. The decoding and rendering engine is provided in a library that can be used by other applications.  An additional library named libswfdec-gtk is provided for easy integration ofSwfdec into Gtk applications. This library is what developers most likely want to target their applications at. Building this library can be disabled.The library is still in heavy development. The intended audience are developersor people using it for pretested Flash animations (think embedded here). If youuse it on unknown content, expect it to have issues and don't be surprised if it crashes. If you encounter such a crash however, make sure to file a bug immediately.Swfdec contains some applications for testing and debugging the library. These are availabole in the player/ and test/ directory. They are not installed. Theapplications in the player/ directory require GTK and ALSO to build, while thelibrary does not. So if you are packaging Swfdec, you probably do not want to make it depend on GTK or ALSA.The test/ directory contains subdirectories that run automated tests with the provided SWF files in the directory. See the README files in those directoriesfor details on how to run or add these tests.If you want to playing Flash files in your web browser, you need a browser plugin additional to this library. The plugins are shipped in seperate packages, like swfdec-mozilla. You can get them at the same location as swfdec.Locations:   The Swfdec homepage is at http://swfdec.freedesktop.org   A bugtracker can be found at https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org   A mailing list is available at swfdec@lists.freedesktop.org     For information about subscribing or unsubscribing from this list see      http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/swfdec   The development source code is kept in git. The following command gets it:     git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/swfdecMaintainers:   see the file MAINTAINERSLimitations: - A few rare object types are not handled at all. They are ignored. - SWF files that use Flash generally heavily depend on ActionScript features.   Support for ActionScript is currently incomplete. Unsupported scripts are   skipped. - If any known unsupported behaviour is encountered, Swfdec will print a    notice to stderr and try to interpret the file nonetheless. If you    encounter a file with only some unsupported things, it may be a good idea   to open a feature request bug and provide the file. The developers are   always interested in files that motivate them to do little steps.Dependencies:  cairo (>= 1.2.0 - >= 1.4.0 recommended)  liboil (>= 0.3.6)  Pangocairo (aka Pango with cairo support)  zlib (>= 1.1.4)  FFMpeg (>= 0.4.8 - optional, required for various audio and video formats)  GStreamer (>= 0.10.11 - optional, required for various audio and video formats)  MAD (>= 0.15.1b - optional, required for MP3 audio format support)  GTK+ (>= 2.0 - used by libswfdec-gtk)  ALSA (>= 1.0 - used by libswfdec-gtk)