On 7/22/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com wrote:
All of this is very interesting (and believe it or not, I'm not being sarcastic). However, can anyone actually help convert these SWFs? I've installed ffmpeg2theora, but that seems to only change the question to "how do I convert a SWF to MPEG2?"
You can use xvidcap to record the running SWF under linux. The convert the result to Theora. ... I dont think the image quality of these SWF's are great to begin with, but the result seems okay:
http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org/pics/video_test.ogg
If you want, and confirm for me that the copyright on these are kosher, I'll go ahead and convert the rest.
Really I suspect we could just recreate them and get better resutlts than working with these SWFs, but as long as the copyright is okay .. It turns out that they are easy enough to convert.