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[csnyder]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:23 AM, bzcoder <bzcoder at bzcode.com> wrote:
>
> Using ffmpeg,
> http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/
> (you can also use the command line, but this is the utility all the youtube
> clone sites use)
>
> ffmpeg supports swf, but how easily it can pull the video is a subject of
> discussion.

At first I thought you were confusing swf and flv.

But then:

/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -formats | grep swf
 DE swf             Flash format
 DEA    adpcm_swf

So it appears to be able to decode and encode in swf format. I have no
idea what this means in practice... can ffmpeg actually create a Flash
animation? But it would seem to mean that you could get a framegrab
from a swf in much the same way that you can from a flv.

Crazy. Wish I had time to try it.

Chris Snyder
http://chxor.chxo.com