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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> On Mon, 16 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:
>
> > 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?).

links2 would need the standard version, as it cannot handle Netscape
plugins. According to the Opera website, "Opera 5.05 or newer is
required for Netscape plugin and Java support."

> > 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?

You mean use just the tool for extracting SWFs? I do think this is
an option. However, I haven't used this software yet. I prefer to
avoid SWFs. I believe that you want both packages, as the first
one may not handle sound, while the second one can extract sound
but not play an SWF.

David

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