I'm getting rather sick of the argument, myself.
A program called "SUPER" (for Windows) can convert it to any format (even *cringe* OGG/Theora - though I personally don't understand why not to use DivX or XviD as they're widely available, closed source or not - I guess it's a "your mileage may vary" type of issue - I go with codecs that are widely available). It has its own codecs so it's not dependant on the ones on your system. You can get it at http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
It can absolutely convert to OGG/Theora if you want to go with that recommendation.
In case you ask why I didn't suggest it before, I just found it last night.
Just install, wait a little while for it to install, then run. It's simple stuff and straightforward.
- Nathan
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Sean Barrett wrote:
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Gregory Maxwell stated for the record:
The XviD codec is very much patent encumbered. No free mpeg4 codec can exist in the near future. The situation for XviD is actually much worse than MP3. mpeg4 codec licensing is a huge expensive mess. Fortunately Theora has competitive quality/bitrate with mpeg4.
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?"
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