2 Methods to Play Flash Files on iPhone 5

Playing Flash on iPhone 5

Since available last September, apple's iPhone 5 has become the most welcome and popular smartphone in the world. Thought the company didn't leak info about how many units have been sold,it's said the handset will be available in 100 countries and regions by the end of this year.

Despite rumored iPhone 6 leaking, our topic today is still concerned with iPhone 5. Well, you must have known those advantages of the flagship, I won't repeat them here. Let's talk about its weakness. 

Hmm...the first problem, its aluminium case is easily get scratch and not durable enough. Users may need a protective shell to avoid scratching. The second one, purple flare appears in pictures taken on iPhone 5 camera. How to deal with this? The official answer said user should aim the camera away from bright light sources. OK, fine. Here's the last but not least question: How can I play flash on iPhone 5? There should be quite a lot of methods. Today I just introduce 2 of them.

Method 1: Play flash on iPhone 5 with Puffin Web Browser (FREE)
The Puffin Browser allows iPhone users to watch flash videos, play flash games and tap into an endless sea of Flash content by running flash on the company's servers.

Limitations of the Puffin Web Browser:

The data centers of browser are in the US. So the cloud servers can only access public web sites from US geo-locations. 

For users outside the US, local content, especially videos of local interest, may not be accessible from the US due to geo-restrictions in user's home country. 

In conclusion, if you live in Europe or other place out of the US, this application is not a good choice for your playing local flash files.

Method 2: Convert flash to video and play on iPhone 5
In this way, you need to have a SWF to iPhone 5 video converter. The idea is to convert flash files (.swf) to popular video formats and make them playable on iPhone 5. The flash animation effect can be retained if you set up output format as .mp4. Now let's have a look at the conversion process.

Step 1: Input flash file
Download, install and launch SWF to Video Converter. Click Browse button and choose From Folder or other options to input file. You can play and preview the flash file on the screen. Click Export button for the next step.

Step 2: Export settings

Choose iPhone 5 suitable .mp4 format with different resolution plans from Style drop-down menu.

Click Setting button and a new window pops up. Here we need to set up profile in order to export a high quality video file. Here we select H.264 as video codec and 1136 * 640 as video size. Other video, audio or image formats are also available. Set up other parameters if necessary. Click OK to confirm setting.

Step 3: Conversion

Click the Convert button. The flash to iPhone 5 video conversion will start after the performance testing.

Step 4: Transfer and play

When the conversion is done, you can play it with media player on computer. Then transfer file to your iPhone via iTunes. Enjoy playing flash files on iPhone 5!