[osflash] SWF to GIF

[Necati Koptagel]

Hi Glen,

Thanks a lot; I added this to my checklist as well.

I found something like that;

http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/print_screen/
http://fi.php.net/manual/en/function.imagegif.php

cheers,

N.

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Glen Pike <postmaster at glenpike.co.uk>
wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>     It looks like you could do a few things, here is my suggestion - there
> are probably other ways too, so don't discount them.
>
>     Part of it would be client side, the other part Server side.
>
>     Take a snapshot of your frame - into a Bitmap.
>
>     Look at libraries to compress that and send it across to your server.
>
>     Then use Server side code to generate your file.
>
>     For PHP, there is the GD library, but this does not always support GIF
> because of the issues with the GIF algorithm not being open.  However, you
> could always consider PNG format.  There is also the ImageMagick library.
> Most decent PHP hosting has GD or ImageMagick installed.  I can't speak for
> ASP or other languages, but I am guessing there will be tools to do the
> same.
>
>     With AS3 being a lot faster, there is also the option of creating your
> image on the client in the format you want, then posting this to the server.
>
>     Have a look for "SWF to PNG" and other things.  If you are not tied
> into using GIF, these could provide a solution.
>
>
> http://www.flepstudio.org/forum/tutorials/507-swf-png-actionscript-3-0-bytearray-class.htmlprovides a good insight into the process of how you can go about this.
>
>     HTH
>
>     Glen
>
> Necati Koptagel wrote:
>
> 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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