[MPlayer-users] How to play .swf and other Flash files using fmpeg or Mplayer

[Alexander Bokovikov]

Sreenivas Chowdary wrote:

> I am using mplayer. I had provided codec support to mplayer using ffmpeg.
> I am able to play .wmv .mpeg and other media files except .swf files.
> Can any one have idea how to play .swf files using ffmpeg or Mplayer.

SWF files are not a video. That is an animation format. Neither ffmpeg nor 
MPlayer can play SWF. Why not to use usual Macromedia/Adobe players to play 
SWF? Also there are many tools, converting SWF to MPEG/AVI, etc. You can use 
them and play the result by MPlayer.

HTH!