[MPlayer-users] Re: Mencoder encodes Flash .flv but not .swf ?

[Richard Ivarson]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
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>> Am I missing something or is it not possible currently with Mencoder 
>> to make a .swf video?
>> Thanks a lot.
> 
> AFAIK, lavf doesn't support swf writing, so MEncoder can't support it 
> either.

Thanks for this hint.
Then I'm not spending more time to try to encode a ".swf" but stick with 
".flv" file which basically Adobe/Macrobmedia suggest as prefered way to do 
Flash videos anyway.
The Flash video file (flv) can be embedded in or controlled by a .swf file:

> However, maybe it's possible to edit/modify the flv file with a 3rd
> party tool to get a working swf file, but that's another story.

Indeed. I've no clue with Flash/Flex and probably there are simpler tools, but 
a quick search on "flv and swf" on the Adobe/Macromedia doc site pointed to 
this nice code snippet:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000546.html#522650

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About the VideoDisplay control
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
   <mx:VBox>
      <mx:VideoDisplay source="http://myhost.com/media/MyVideo.flv"
          height="400" width="400"/>
   </mx:VBox>
</mx:Application>
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Which is a small xml script which can be compiled to a swf file with the free 
Flex2 SDK's "mxmlc" compiler. Then the swf just plays the flv video produced 
by Mencoder.

-ric