[osflash] SWF to GIF

[Necati Koptagel]

I need to take a snapshot of the first frame, not extract image files from
the SWF file. There are already tools for that on SWFtools. Furthermore, it
has to be on serverside, therefore google links will not work.

I found something like that on SWFTools FAQ:

http://www.swftools.org/faq.html

*19.) How can I convert SWF frames to bitmap?*
There's a "swfrender" utility in the CVS, which isn't finished yet, and will
only work for *very* simple SWF files. (No Actionscript,no
gradient fills, no morph shapes, no blending modes, no filters, etc.)
Probably other Flash Open-Source projects (like Gnash) have some
more sophisticated utilities for this.

That could work great; if it worked completely.

N.-

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Mark Winterhalder <mark13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Chris Spencer <chrisspen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you comparing apples to oranges? A
> > SWF is a package that includes bitmap, vector, sound, and program
> > logic, whereas a GIF is essentially just a bitmap.
>
> Not necessarily. An SWF used to be a format for animations, the rest
> came later. Animated GIFs can contain, well, animations.
> Of course you can't have interactivity or logic in an animated GIF,
> but you can well have badgers and mushrooms (without sound) -- for,
> say, a thumbnail preview it does make sense.
>
> Mark
>
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