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

[Sreenivas Chowdary]

 Hi,

 Where can i find FLV player to play flash files on Linux Machine?
 I need to play swf files in Mplayer using FLV.
 Please suggest me.And I am new to this group.

Thanks,
Sreenivas


On 9/8/07, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> 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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