narendra sisodiya wrote: > I want to play a swf file(EEL201 lectures) on ubuntu. > > OGG is a open standard which is a patent free and royalty free standard. > http://www.dissurion.com/use-ogg-and-not-mp3/ > > PS: hope Shouri Sir and other will consider out request !!
Short answer: sudo apt-get install gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash Long answer: OGG is an audio format. The SWF files are videos (with audio). The graphics in the videos are vector graphics (which means, a line is an instruction to draw a line from point A to point B, not a series of pixelated points.) This is particularly suited to the kind of videos that are in these files. Not for motion photographs. As a result, the compression in the videos is excellent. Compression in the files is a constraint - a 50 min lecture in an AVI/DIVX/MPEG or any other format would use up a good 200-250 MBs. The vector graphics in SWF files require only 30 MB. 42 lectures for a course will use up only 1.3GB, as opposed to 12GB. SWF is a popular format. Players are available on windows, macs, linux, 64-bit linux, solaris - almost everywhere. For installation of the SWF player on ubuntu, please include the medibuntu repositories, and follow the instructions. http://www.medibuntu.org/ You can also directly download the flash player from Adobe's website. They also have a 64-bit flash player in case you need it. If you think Adobe is evil, there are several open source flash players for ubuntu, e.g: gnash. You can easily install this on ubuntu: sudo apt-get install gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash If you know of any other audio-video file format, that uses compressed vector graphics, can save a 50 min video into 30 MB, has cross platform player support (windows, linux et al), and at the same time, can be easily created, please let me know. I use an open source python program called pyvnc2swf to create the videos. A replacement for this will also be needed. Till then, this discussion almost sounds like why we should not be using GIF files. -Shouri --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
