SWF player

[Laguna]

I was wondering if anyone here knows of any good free non trial version swf players?I wouldn't trust what google would bring up.And I have been recommended some great applications here before.

Thanks in advance,

[Fruss Tray Ted]

What do you need a player for? All I use is my browser for swf files I have saved on my HDD. I use either Explorer or Firefox

[babelz]

there you go
http://www.geovid.com/Flash_Player
it's freeware
enjoy!

[Laguna]

What do you need a player for? All I use is my browser for swf files I have saved on my HDD. I use either Explorer or Firefox

Yeah for some reason I actually didn't think to just open it with FireFox.
Thanks.

[Mini-Me]

This is my favourite SWF player, and it is totally free, although, naturally, you will need the flash-plugin installed...

http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/flash_movie_player/?fmp

[pangea33]

Not sure what exactly you're want to do, since *.swf files can easily be viewed in any web browser. I had a specific need that involved certain types of streaming media, which I could find as *.flv files in my Firefox cache but couldn't view due to their format. I only needed this tool so that I could view the streaming media, by pasting the url from Firefox's cache into the viewer window. Evidently, some people also want to capture these videos in a format they can archive and view on their machine whenever. Filetypes such as *.avi, *.mpg, *.mp4, *.wmv come to mind. A birdie told me that you can successfully export these files to one of those formats.

This application is freeware and is called Super (Simplified Universal Player Encoder and Renderer). A fair amount of searching went into finding it, and I can't say with any certainty that it's risk-free. I sometimes question the motives of vendors who offer highly useful software absolutely free. I can merely say that nothing turned up using Avast, FileAlyzer, or HJT / Spybot / AdAware upon reboot.

Link to ERightSoft Download (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html)

Screenshot of app:
http://benconley.net/images/SuperEncoder1.gif

Screenshot showing available export formats:
http://benconley.net/images/SuperEncoder2.gif

[Mini-Me]

As this is the second "Why would you want to?" type comment/question on this thread, I thought I would comment at this point as to exactly why you should want to.
:D
It is often a requirement, I find, to be able to play SWF files without having to crank up a browser package. The beauty of a SWF player over a browser, is that you simply double-click the swf file, and it runs the player, and plays the file. Before I installed Flash Movie Player, I had to run the browser, and open a saved web-page. Also annoying about the browser method, is the fact that when you reload the web page, it also reloads all those extremely annoying ads and talking "Oh my God! No way!" smilies which irritate the hell out of me. Also, using the "Save entire web page" option in a browser, creates(after a time) hundreds of sub-folders with hundreds of useless graphics files and VB scripts, that you don't need or want.

Therefore, my 2c is that a dedicated SWF player is a better option, because it is faster and easier to play SWF files with, then loading up the browser method is. It's primamry attraction for me is that you can watch the SWF in full-screen if you want, instead of a window, and also it bypasses all those annoying GIF/flash ads.

...only my opinion, mind...

[pentachris]

It is often a requirement, I find, to be able to play SWF files without having to crank up a browser package. The beauty of a SWF player over a browser, is that you simply double-click the swf file, and it runs the player, and plays the file. [and all that other stuff Mini-Me said...]
So, associate swf files with your browser. You can do all that, including watching them in full-screen.

*.swf files can easily be viewed in any web browser.

Any browser can play any file that it's got the appropriate plugin for. And browsers exist that don't have flash plugins available for them...

[Mini-Me]

I am not denying that you can play SWF's in any browser - that is not the point i am trying to make here.

The point is that members such as myself simply prefer a seperate, standalone application to play them, without having to run a web browser to do it. :cool:

It's like an MP3 plugin for a browser vs Winamp, for example.
Both can play MP3's, but one is usually preferred over the other - it is a personal preference thing.

I simply don't like using web-browsers to play files of any kind, including(not not limited to) SWF's, MP3's, AVI's, MOV's, MPG's etc...

In fact, I don't even use Windows Media Player for this, I use Zoom Player.

Now, I know when you read this, you will not agree, however...

If I may be so bold as to say this, since the first post by Laguna, members here seem intent to convert Laguna, myself and other like-minded members to adopt their web-browsers as media-players for everything. :p I detect a slight change in subject. ;) The original question was if there are free standalone SWF players available, not "Can you use your web-browser as a media player for everything?"

...well, that's the feeling I get from this thread anyway...

I am just stating my point of view, and somewhat bluntly now, as the original question does not seem to be getting answered, rather a quite noticable attempt to force a subject change on anyone who does not want to use their browser to play SWF's(and other media, for that matter).

This is my final post on this thread, as I do not want to be blamed for trying to start a flame-war.(which i am most definetly not trying to do, but the trouble with any forums, is it is easy to be mis-interpreted! (which is why I use lots of smilies))

Goodbye.
:)

[pangea33]

Any browser can play any file that it's got the appropriate plugin for. And browsers exist that don't have flash plugins available for them...

Fair enough. I was actually trying to head towards the idea of file extensions other than swf, but you're absolutely right on this point.

[Fruss Tray Ted]

"Save entire web page" option in a browser, creates(after a time) hundreds of sub-folders with hundreds of useless graphics files and VB scripts, that you don't need or want.
I don't understand why you save a webpage when all that is needed to save is the file itself? I have nearly a hundred flash files I've saved for fun and they take next to nil space on my drive, fit on floppies if desired, open some for the grandkid's fun, but to lay a final word on what is a proper way to use or view them is merely an opinion 'imo'

[jlreich]

Thanks for the link to Super pangea33. It works quite well. :cool:

[thunderfish]

you can use [URL="[/URL] to do that too.

You're welcome to appeal the decision to munge the link to the moderators...

[Fruss Tray Ted]

Spam on an old thread?

Mods notified

[stephenz]

I see this post, I want to answer it and cannot find any other thing to do, so here I am, plz don't blame me on old thread.

I heard that JW flv player is good, but I have tried it and tried to installs its plugins, but I can not for the life of me work out how to now use the code provided in the README.txt.
Compare with JW, Moyea web player Pro is much easier to use.

[Sylvander]

Mods alerted.