I have to second that this seems like a niche usage. Most SWFs provide an interactive experience through the event model, and are not just timeline animations designed to be played from start to finish with a set duration. Such a tool would have to ignore the user interactions, and on something like a flex app with a login (or any swf where a user has to interact with the movie by clicking a button or other UI element to continue), you would simply be left with an FLV of unknown length playing a shot of the login form. Best to leave these specialized tools up to the individual developer or community at large to develop if the need arises.
-Ryan From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: How do they do that (Flex & video) comfederation, You have a niche usage of the tools and while we would all love Adobe to provide a solution to your problem, few would regard it as essential. Beating a drum about this particular feature omission is unlikely to result in a mad clamour of support, as is dismissing respondents to the thread. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "comfederation" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:comfederation%40yahoo.com> > To: <[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:22 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: How do they do that (Flex & video) > No it's not OK ;) > > When a company has different file formats then it's really sad and > unfortunate to have to rely on third party tools for conversion > between those formats - if for no other reason then integration and > overall better experience. > > My laymen understanding is that FLV is a streamable video format and > like you said SWF is like an exe. Well actually it's more like Java > byte code in that it is a stream of byte code that is only > understandable by the Flash Player. > > If you look back through some of the responses or maybe they are on my > other post, you will see that at least one person on this forum has > suggested using SnagIt or some other screen capturing tools. No, > indeed it is not OK if folks who are evidently at least dabbling with > Flex and there they are suggesting third party screen capture tools. > > Not only is it not OK but it is quite sad that Adobe, who is smack > deep in this space, has left even one developer thinking of resorting > to such band aids. I for one am disgusted by it and only because they > know the best how to "play" a SWF file and how to capture the video > "stream" that comes out of it. > > Enough said on my part. > > P.S. However, your reply is not only OK but it's also much appreciated > as well. > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Fotis Chatzinikos" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> flex and video are different things... >> >> Flex can play video easily, the same applies to Silverlight. >> >> Silverlight is not video , it can play video... >> >> Trying to convert an swf to flv is similar to converting an exe to flv >> >> ok? > > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf- 1e62079f6847 > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system.
