Serverside solution for converting an SWF file to a VIDEO file

Question

Right now i develop an RIA application, for online movie creating. Main data format it`s a server side generated swf files. I need an server side solution for automated swf to video converting.

After some researching and experiments, i found two solutions:

1. Rewrite a bit an open source flash player gnash
2. Grab adobe flash player directly through virtual X server

But both methods has a number of disadvantages like this:

1. gnash support only old formats of swf
2. grabbing work real time only

Someone can suggest another way to do this stuff?

Answer 1

Interesting,

I spotted this SimpleFLVWriter made for AIR, but I guess it could be adapted to have the writing to a file on the server. I theory you could load the swf, check the framerate, take a bitmapData snapshot every frame then send all the bitmapDatas as binary(ByteArray) to the server to write it as flv.

Just my 2 pennies.