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

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> On Tue, 17 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:
>
> > 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.
> 
> No, I asked if you could download the 1.5MB linux source code and 
> modify the package so as to compile only the tool that turned SWF 
> back into other formats, which is probably just one executable and 
> maybe a library or a few libraries.  (Like netpbm, another 
> collection of tools).  I could attempt to edit the Makefile so as 
> to make only the part I wanted.  I was surprised how easy it was to 
> compile playmidi without all the pieces (not that I have it working 
> yet, of course.  I plugged the sound card to a radio with 
> adjustable volume and turned it way up but got no sound so it must 
> be set somehow to null volume, as I think someone else mentioned).

Why would I want to do this? This would be much harder than just
compiling everything. It would be easier to just download the package
and build it the normal way.

> Maybe it could even be compiled statically, including the 
> conversion libraries.

Anything can be.

> The .swf file sent us was, I think, just audio.  Like doc or pdf 
> files containing nothing but one png, MS wraps a lot of garbage 
> around what could be a simple format.

It would be nice if more people followed Occam's razor here...

> I have not yet downloaded the 385K .pps file.  Would pps be 
> something like a slide show with accompanying sound?

.pps files are similar to what is used by MagicPoint. They contain
text, style and format cues, perhaps some images, and (rarely)
sounds to play back during the presentation.

David

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