[MPlayer-users] flash-in-quicktime

[Austin]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:40:20PM -0400, Austin wrote:
> [...]
>> Any chance of making this work?
> 
> Well, someone could try to hack gnash to support it I guess...
> 
>> If not, is there any other way I can extract the flash animations out 
>> directly?
> 
> Use a (hex-)editor and remove everything before "FWS".
> The only other way I know of is
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/extractor-gtk/
> but that's somewhat overkill (esp. since I'm not sure if the user
> interface is usable by anyone except me ;-) ).

Well, the gnash devels had this to say:

 >   The mplayer developer that popped into the irc channel the other
 > thought it'd be easier to have mplayer handoff the flash part of the
 > .mov to Gnash using Xembed. Gnash is a flash player, not a video player.
 > I'd guess we could make Gnash display a raw quicktime time, but I don't
 > think this is a priority when compared to the other things we're working
 > on right now. We'll gladly except a patch that implements this 
though. :-)

Personally, doesn't it seem more logical to have mplayer handle the 
quicktime container, but call libgnash to decode and play the animation, 
than to have gnash learn to open quicktime files?  I mean, even for mime 
type simplicity?

Austin