24 Jun 2009 Howto decompose a SWF Adobe Flash file
This post describes howto decompose a SWF Flash-file using linux and a program named swfextract. The post came to life because I had to do some changes to one of my flash presentations but I had deleted all the source files. After searching the Internet i doscovered swfextract.
SWF Tools is a collection of SWF (Flash) manipulation and creation utilities like pdf2swf, jpeg2swf, png2swf, gif2swf, font2swf, wav2swf, swfcombine, swfdump, swfstrings, swfbbox and swfc. But I’m only going to use swfextract in this post.
If you don’t have it installed on your system, download it and install the deb-package
# wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/swftools/swftools_0.8.1-2.1_i386.deb # dpkg -i swftools_0.8.1-2.1_i386.deb
The swftools package depends on several packages like libgif4 libt1-5 and they should be installed before swftools
# aptitude install libgif4 libt1-5
I was interested in extracting the image files in my Flash presentation and did the following to determine what was in the presentation file
# swfextract flashfile.swf Objects in file flashfile.swf: [-i] 5 Shapes: ID(s) 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 [-j] 4 JPEGs: ID(s) 2, 6, 8, 10 [-f] 1 Frame: ID(s) 0
As we see above there are 4 JPEG-files I'm interested in extracting and their IDs.
I did the following to extract the image files
# swfextract -i 2 -j 2,6,8,10 flashfile.swf
Result files
output.swf pic10.jpg pic2.jpg pic6.jpg pic8.jpg
If you don't use the -i switch you will end up with only one output.jpg file.
You are now ready to recreate the Flash presentation using the extracted image files.
Source
http://www.swftools.org
SWF Tools
Tags: adobe, decompose, extract, Flash, howto, SWF, swfextract
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
12 May 2009 Howto make Adobe Flash work on 64-bit Ubuntu
This post is actually not a HOWTO, but a quick tip on how to install Adobe Flash 10 in 64-bit Ubuntu. I’ve tested this in Ubuntu 9.4 with great success using the following commands from a console window.
wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_x64_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash10_x64_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash10_x64_en.sh
Note!
Please read through the script and make sure you know what it does before you run it, to avoid any surprises.
Source: http://queleimporta.com/en/finally-adobe-releases-native-64-bit-flash-10-for-linux/
Tags: 64-bit, 9.04, Flash, howto, Ubuntu
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
16 Mar 2009 Valid Flash
I’ve gotten tired of my Flashpresentation movies not being valid HTML. After some research and a tip from a friend of mine I found this solution to the problem.
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="images/banner.swf" width="288" height="128"> <param name="movie" value="images/banner.swf" /> <img src="banner.gif" width="288" height="128" alt="banner" /> </object>
It works great and shows a image file if Flash support isn’t available.
Source: http://www.ambience.sk/flash-valid.htm
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
04 Jun 2007 Creating ScreenCapture Videos in Linux
A solution that is fast flexible and gives great results. It is not Open Source but it is a free download for Linux. You may have heard of it before. Wink is a utility for creating flash/swf based presentations.
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Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
