Playing method and playing device

The invention relates to the animation playing technology, and provides a playing method and a playing device against for the defect of the difficult generation of the present SWF file. The playing method is used for playing an SWF file, the SWF file comprises a playing control file, a description file and a resource file packet, wherein the resource file packet comprises at least one resource file, the playing control file comprises a playing control order for each resource file, the description file records the size of each resource file and the position of each resource file in the SWF file, after loading the playing control order for each resource file, the resource file is read according to the description file, and the resource file is played according to the playing control order. The invention provides a simple SWF file format. With the format, the user can easily generate an SWF file and can play the SWF file through the playing method and the playing device.