reverse engineering adope flash

entz · 01-10-2012, 06:17 AM

hi ,

well some may disagree but i personally think that flash always has been a great piece of software , anyways i'm interested in seeing flash reverse engineered and an open source version released that is compatible with common flash object (i.e .swf)

is this feasible?

cheers

brianL · 01-10-2012, 06:27 AM

There's gnash and lightspark. I recently tried them in a Debian "Wheezy" VM, but they're not up to the standard of Adobe Flash, yet.

entz · 01-14-2012, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by brianL

There's gnash and lightspark. I recently tried them in a Debian "Wheezy" VM, but they're not up to the standard of Adobe Flash, yet.

okay , now that's interesting !
now since you've tested it , how much functionality is still missing in terms of percentage according to your estimation?
and which one is better so far , gnash or lightspark? why can't the FLOSS devs just merge their projects ??

cheers

brianL · 01-15-2012, 05:08 AM

I read somewhere that you could have both gnash and lightspark installed, and that would give best results. So that's what I tried, watched a few music videos on youtube and a couple of programmes on BBC iPlayer. The main problem was stuttering, jerky images, and poorer definition than Flash. I'm sure they'll get it sorted out, sometime. Fingers crossed.

entz · 01-15-2012, 08:14 PM

ok thanks , btw have you tried running flash games? they seem to get ever more complicated
i wonder if they would work...

cheers

brianL · 01-16-2012, 05:33 AM

No, I didn't try any games. After I saw the poor performance on a few videos, I uninstalled them and went back to Flash.