[WikiEN-l] Tech help: Video format conversion

[Sean Barrett]

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Gregory Maxwell stated for the record:

> 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
> 
> 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.

The license is {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}}, created by an employee of the
US Navy during the course of his duties.  I copied the SWFs from
https://ile-lms.nko.navy.mil/Details.asp?CourseRef=32077 , a CBT course
entitled "Surface Warfare Officer School (SWOS) Shiphandling."

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