---
name: "tightspark"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "lightspark"
version: "0.7.2-6"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lightspark"
---

# tightspark(1)

a free Flash player

Part of [lightspark(1)](/lightspark/1.md).

## NAME

lightspark - a free Flash player

## SYNOPSIS

**lightspark** \[--url\|-u http://loader.url/file.swf\] \[--disable-interpreter\|-ni\] \[--enable-jit\|-j\] \[--log-level\|-l 0-4\] \[--parameters-file\|-p params-file\] \[--version\|-v\] file.swf

## DESCRIPTION

**Lightspark** is a free, modern Flash Player implementation, this documents the options accepted by the standalone version of the program.

The player is currently in Beta, support for any particular SWF file is not guaranteed

You might wish to see the project website at http://lightspark.sf.net or our  technical blog at http://allievi.sssup.it/techblog

## OPTIONS

**--url** loader.url/file.swf, **-u** loader.url/file.swf

-

  Pretends to be loading the file from an url

**--disable-interpreter**, **-ni**

-

  Disable the ActionScript interpreter

**--enable-jit**, **-j**

-

  Enable the ActionScript JIT compilation engine

**--log-level** 0-4, **-l** 0-4

-

  Sets the verbosity of the output, the default is 2

**--parameters-file** params-file, **-p** params-file

-

  Load flash parameters from file. Every odd line will be interpreted as a parameter name, with the following one as the value.

**--profiling-output** profiling-file, **-o** profiling-file

-

  Output profiling data to profiling-file in a callgrind/KCachegrind compatible format

**--version**, **-v**

-

  Shows lightspark version and exits.

## AUTHOR

lightspark was written by Alessandro Pignotti.

This manual page was written by Jacopo Corbetta \<j.corbetta@sssup.it\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).