I have released Apparat RC5 at GoogleCode. It contains a really cool feature which is called LZMA compression. Reducer has advanced a lot during the last couple of weeks. It is now also a strong SWF compression tool even if you do not have any PNG files it can compress. You may ask: "What is that Matryoshka doing there? And why the hell the top hat?" The top hat: I do not know. The Matryoshka: I can explain. The Flash Player does not understand LZMA. SWF files are compressed using good old DEFLATE. So what happens? Apparat extracts your original SWF. It compresses it again using the LZMA algorithm. The compressed SWF is injected into another SWF that contains an LZMA decoder. Size, background color, frame rate, etc. get adjusted. Finally you get a new SWF that contains your old SWF and a decoder to extract it at runtime. The overhead of the decoder is currently at around 5kb and I hope I can get it even smaller. When you open that SWF with the Flash Player it will extract your original file and loa
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