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which SWF standalone desktop player

greendesert posted 2008 Sep 06 11:54

Hi I am looking for a SWF standalone desktop player. i have used aero and do not like it much. I downloaded the flv player from here and its v quick to launch and excellent player. Is there not any free swf player around ? Since both are flash, I wonder why any flv player does not play swf files ? ?

Baldrick posted 2008 Sep 06 12:00

flv is just video and swf(shockwave flash) can contain both video and flash content so it requires a different decoder.

greendesert posted 2008 Sep 06 12:21

OK, so is there any standalone swf player ?

Ai Haibara posted 2008 Sep 06 13:34

There's a number of them. The three I use are: Media Player Classic IrfanView (though its Flash support may be a little dated) ...and versions of the Macromedia executable Flash player I extracted from stand-alone Flash .exes (which aren't as common these days, I guess.)

greendesert posted 2008 Sep 06 13:48

What has MPC got to do with swf player ?

Ai Haibara posted 2008 Sep 06 13:50

Media Player Classic can play SWFs. Try opening one in MPC.

greendesert posted 2008 Sep 06 14:02

oh yes, I just forgot MPC. Thanks buddy :) Does MPC have brightness and contrast control ? which I can set and save ? thanks again

Ai Haibara posted 2008 Sep 06 14:14

I don't think it has an easy, direct way of changing the brightness and contrast, no. There are some effects you can use under Play > Shaders (and you can add to those choices with View > Shader Editor, but I certainly don't know how to do anything with it :oops: ), but that's mostly about it. I think MPC depends more on the system and decoder settings for that. I like using MPC to play SWF files, though, because it has no problem letting you scale them to full-screen. :)

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