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Convert SWF to PNG

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CookieOfFortune 2010-01-04 20:25:06

I'd prefer to start with server-side technologies, then try client-side, since there will always be malicious users out there. But thanks - I'll keep it in mind :)

Matchu 2010-01-04 20:36:49

The point of the article is that the screenshot is taken in Flash. You can do whatever you want with that image at that point.

CookieOfFortune 2010-01-04 20:50:23

PHP will let you write that png to the server using a filestream. It's going to use the same mechanism within Flash to encode the .png data, then you just send the byte array to your PHP method.

Myk 2010-01-05 01:34:00

Answer 2

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Depending on the type of swf's you have you could try FFmpeg from the command line:

ffmpeg -i movie.swf -f image2 -vcodec png movie%d.png

cOle2 2010-01-04 20:33:42

"[swf @ 0x9b822c0]Compressed SWF format not supported" - drat. Trying to Google a way out of this - apparently I should be able to build a tool that will decompress it...

Matchu 2010-01-04 20:42:43

Interesting. Now PNG is listed as one of ffmpeg's formats, but I get "could not find codec parameters" anyway. I'll keep working on it.

Matchu 2010-01-04 21:38:48

Answer 3

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you can use swftools.
swfrender file.swf -o output.png

bhups 2010-01-05 06:33:57

Odd. I had looked up swftools but somehow missed that particular tool that does exactly what I need. I'll check on that later today :)

Matchu 2010-01-05 17:19:20

Seems to work instantly - and to think I already had this installed! Thanks!

Matchu 2010-01-05 17:30:26

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