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I'm not sure if this is entirely worthy of a hint, but I was informed recently about something that I never knew about: Adobe has a free stand-alone application (i.e. not a browser plugin) for Flash animations (SWF), and it includes a full-screen mode.

As far as I can tell, this app is not listed at places like VersionTracker, and isn't exactly easy to find at Adobe's site if you don't already know it exists. I'm not quite sure why Adobe is so keen to keep its existence a secret.

You can get the player from the Adobe downloads page. Scroll down to the section entitle Adobe Flash Player 9 -- Standalone Players (Projectors) for Macintosh and download the proper version (Intel, PowerPC) for your machine.
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Authored by: dipsomaniac on Feb 20, '07 08:31:51AM

Anyone have a clue why the PowerPC version is 20+MB (!) more than the Intel one?



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Authored by: bugmenot on Feb 20, '07 11:35:22AM

The PPC dmg file has a separate program for 9 localizations. However, I couldn't get the english version to play any flv file.

The Intel release dmg is actually a universal file according to lipo (and see the 'ub' string at the end of the file name). It also wouldn't play any flv file, even though it recognized them as its own. It does play a .swf URL though on 10.3.



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Authored by: gvitale on Feb 20, '07 08:56:28AM

You can also use the Quicktime player for most SWF files



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Authored by: Mr. H on Feb 20, '07 09:36:27AM

QuickTime doesn't play most of the SWFs that I have. Most that I try to open result in the always helpful "Error Opening Movie" alert from QT, stating that "The movie could not be opened" with one button, ironically labelled "OK".

I don't know why these files won't open in QT (some of them used to, obviously some QT update broke something), but they open and play fine in the stand-alone player from Adobe.



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Authored by: encro on Feb 25, '07 09:09:38PM

Go into Quicktime.prefPane in System Preferences and check 'Enable Flash' on the Advanced Tab.

It was disabled because QT's Flash component is very out of date.

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Authored by: mgldan on Feb 20, '07 09:01:08AM
Actually, VersionTracker has listed this for some time.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11622

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Authored by: dipsomaniac on Feb 20, '07 09:06:31AM

That's the plug-in.



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Authored by: Marius_Th on Feb 20, '07 10:03:12AM

No, it's the stand alone player.
VersionTracker is one of the few, if not the only one that indeed shows the stand alone version.



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Authored by: Marius_Th on Feb 20, '07 10:09:37AM

or so i thought... It used to be there though I think, VT is where I used to get it from.



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Authored by: marioestrada on Feb 20, '07 09:40:35AM

Thanks great information I always hate when a .swf opens in the old player bundled with Flash Pro

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Authored by: horkstow on Feb 20, '07 02:51:03PM

Thanks for this. I did not know it existed. It seems only to play .swf files. But it's good to have it, although the free SWF & FLV Player plays both. See [link:]http://mac.eltima.com/freeflashplayer.html



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Authored by: Norm Nager on Feb 21, '07 05:07:25PM

What's required for installation other than dragging SAFlashPlayer to the Applications folder or do you need to do anything with the two other components of the download, SAFlashPlayer.data SAFlashPlayer.rsrc?

Respectfully, Norm



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Authored by: encro on Feb 25, '07 09:11:55PM

Anyone with the MX Suite should already be aware of this as its bundled with FlashMX.

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