[TAG] .SWF files (Flash)

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:22:04PM -0800, Mike Orr wrote:
>> On 2/9/06, Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil at imsc.res.in> wrote:
>>> As far as I know the latter is an open format,
>> Is the format actually published?
> 
> Given that GNU is developing a viewer based on the SWF specification, I
> have a sneaking suspicion that it is, yes.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

The format was published around the time of Flash 3; I don't know if the 
more recent versions were published, but people have gotten pretty used 
to reverse engineering it.