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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 16 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > Will Mplayer do .swf files?
>
> No. SWF has support for many different things which MPlayer
> isn't designed to handle.
>
> > People are always sending something new.
> > (Shockwave Flash, I believe it is).
>
> For SWFs you may either use the Flash plugin from Macromedia (for
> Linux) or the free software equivalent:
>
> http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/

This comes either as an rpm for KDE, or as 350K source code, and plays swf 
movies.  It can be used as a Netscape plugin (can you use Netscape plugins 
with Opera or links2?).  I might eventually try to compile it since I now 
have a fast enough computer to use it on.

> There is also swftools. One of the tools allows you to extract
> video, audio, and other things from an SWF.

4MB Windows binary, or 1.5MB linux source.  Most of the tools are for 
turning other formats into swf.  Can you (or I) compile just the tool for 
extracting other formats from swf?

> http://www.quiss.org/swftools/
>
> David