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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 08 September 2007 at 19:49, David Griffith wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Alexander Bokovikov wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I distinctly remember an earlier release of Mplayer being capable of
> playing SWF files.

As I've already written: MPlayer can play SWF if, and only if it contains
FLV video.

Regards,
R.

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