Lightspark
Free and open source SWF player
title: "Lightspark" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["adobe-flash", "free-software-programmed-in-c++", "2013-software"] description: "Free and open source SWF player" topic_path: "general/adobe-flash" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightspark" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Free and open source SWF player ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox software"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Lightspark |
| title | Lightspark |
| logo | [[File:Lightspark Logo.svg |
| developer | Alessandro Pignotti |
| latest release version | 0.9.0 |
| latest release date | |
| programming language | C++ |
| operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, Windows |
| platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
| size | 21 MiB (Win32), 22.8 MiB (Win64) |
| language | English |
| genre | Multimedia |
| license | LGPLv3 |
| website | |
| :: |
| name = Lightspark | title = Lightspark | logo = [[File:Lightspark Logo.svg|border|280px|Lightspark logo]] | developer = Alessandro Pignotti | latest release version = 0.9.0 | latest release date = | programming language = C++ | operating system = Linux, FreeBSD, Windows | platform = IA-32, x86-64 | size = 21 MiB (Win32), 22.8 MiB (Win64) | language = English | genre = Multimedia | license = LGPLv3 | website = Lightspark is a free and open-source Adobe Flash (SWF) player released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.
Features
Lightspark supports most of ActionScript 3.0 and has an NPAPI plug-in. Though it has some support for it, it will fall back on Gnash, a free SWF player, on ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 (AVM1) code.
Lightspark supports OpenGL-based rendering and uses OpenGL shaders (GLSL). The player is compatible with H.264 Flash Videos such as those on YouTube.
Portability
The Lightspark player is completely portable. It has been successfully built on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) on PowerPC, x86, ARM and AMD64 architectures. Lightspark has a Win32 branch for Microsoft Visual Studio and introduced a Mozilla-compatible plug-in for Windows in version 0.5.3.
References
References
- (2025-02-16). "Release 0.9.0 · lightspark/lightspark".
- (2010-07-09). "Lightspark flash player continues to advance".
- Forster, Christopher. (2011-01-04). "Lightspark Windows port".
- Monoses, Jani. (2011-03-15). "0.4.6-0ubuntu1 : lightspark package : Ubuntu".
- (2010-08-02). "Email Archive: lightspark-devel (read-only)".
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