SV: [MPlayer-users] Re: Re: swf flash with mplayer

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:03:02AM +0100, Marius Schrecker wrote:
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> > Emne: Re: [MPlayer-users] Re: Re: swf flash with mplayer
> > 
> > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:49:55 +0300
> > Vladimir Mosgalin <mosgalin at VM10124.spb.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > swf files with videos are rare,
> > 
> > Actually, I believe that's exactly what abcnews.com is using for all
> of
> > their free news videos.
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> I hope this won't be considered off-topic. I've been looking into swf
> movie conversion for my bro' who has some advertising material in
> compressed swf exe's. They played in wine, but getting to the point of
> being able to handle them with Mplayer/Mencoder seemed hopeless.
> 
> After about 5 minutes googling I have found (mostly) free utilities for
> conversion from exe to swf, decompressing - a gpl/linux utility from
> swftools.org, and conversion to avi (also free, but doze. Might work
> under wine). My preferred method would have been mencoder, but at-least
> I can now use mplayer to play the avi's.

mplayer should be able to play swf files that just contain video (as
opposed to script/vector animation) using the lavf swf demuxer, but
i'm not sure if it fully works..

rich