[WikiEN-l] Tech help: Video format conversion

[stevertigo]

--- Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/22/06, Sean Barrett <sean at 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

AIUI, there is no such thing as an SWF video format, and the SWF is just a container to
allow portability and some play control buttons. Use some kind of SWF decompiler, and
the video inside will be in something easy enough to convert. 

SV


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