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Shumway is DOA without the direct help from Adobe. That's not the first time someones tries to develop an open source flash player. They all failed.


There just wasn't enough work and money put into these open source players.

For instance there is proprietary Flash implementation called Scaleform used for games UI. Even long ago before Autodesk acquired them it's had both decent compatibility with normal SWF as well as full GPU acceleration for every platform possible include Linux.


I've used Scaleform a good amount. It's not 100% compatible with stock Flash but it's pretty darn close in the use cases I've been exposed to.

Scaleform has a complex code base but clearly it is possible to reverse engineer the Flash runtime and make a compatible player.




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