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Opening Flash?

Opening Flash?

Posted May 1, 2008 17:05 UTC (Thu) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869)
In reply to: Opening Flash? by kripkenstein
Parent article: Adobe's Open Screen Project

Interesting comment by Benjamin Otte, author of swfdec (afaik):
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/swfdec/2008-May/001...

Summary: Adobe's announcement is just a PR-thing.


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Opening Flash?

Posted May 1, 2008 17:17 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

Interesting, thanks for the link. I had no idea that reverse-engineering had produced such a
complete spec.

I wonder how exact it is. Well, I guess we can now compare it to the official version.

Opening Flash?

Posted May 1, 2008 18:21 UTC (Thu) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link]

It just goes to prove that reverse engineering the format is just one step. Getting everything
implemented sufficiently correct and behaving as expected is the other piece that takes a lot
of trial and error.

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