which SWF standalone desktop player

[greendesert]

Hi

I am looking for a SWF standalone desktop player. i have used aero and do not like it much.
I downloaded the flv player from here and its v quick to launch and excellent player. Is
there not any free swf player around ?

Since both are flash, I wonder why any flv player does not play swf files ? ?

[Baldrick]

flv is just video and swf(shockwave flash) can contain both video and flash content so it requires a different decoder.

[greendesert]

OK, so is there any standalone swf player ?

[Ai Haibara]

There's a number of them.

The three I use are:
Media Player Classic
IrfanView (though its Flash support may be a little dated)

...and versions of the Macromedia executable Flash player I extracted from stand-alone Flash .exes (which aren't as common these days, I guess.)

[greendesert]

What has MPC got to do with swf player ?

[Ai Haibara]

Media Player Classic can play SWFs. Try opening one in MPC.

[greendesert]

oh yes, I just forgot MPC.
Thanks buddy

Does MPC have brightness and contrast control ? which I can set and save ?
thanks again

[Ai Haibara]

I don't think it has an easy, direct way of changing the brightness and contrast, no. There are some effects you can use under Play > Shaders (and you can add to those choices with View > Shader Editor, but I certainly don't know how to do anything with it ), but that's mostly about it. I think MPC depends more on the system and decoder settings for that.

I like using MPC to play SWF files, though, because it has no problem letting you scale them to full-screen.