[swfmill] Does swfmill have any options for image compression?

[mawe]

mawe schrieb:
> Mark Winterhalder schrieb:
> 
>> Yes, the Flash IDE is what I meant.
>>
>> I'd be curious about an experiment somebody with access to Flash could
>> do: A simple SWF with just a single PNG, once with lowest compression,
>> then highest compression, and how those compare to each other and a
>> Swfmill equivalent.
>> I mean, we can see with Zlib how lossless compression can differ
>> depending on how many cycles you throw at it, but if SWF's lossless
>> compression varies in size, I wonder why it's not at highest per
>> default.
>>
>> Mark
> 
> Tested it at work, with a 24 bit PNG with semi-transparent areas, saved for web out of Photoshop:
> 
> - Original PNG: 858 KB
> - SWF output size, with JPEG quality for publishing set to 0 (zero): 177 KB
> - SWF output size, JPEG quality set to 100 (hundred): 627 KB
> 
> The low quality version showed heavy artifacts and was, well ... low quality.
> I couldn't notice any differences in quality for the high quality version, despite the 200+ KB 
> difference in filesize.
> 
> Maybe this helps.
> 
> Matthias

Almost forgot, here's the PNG used:

http://typeofundefined.com/stuff/screens/website_web.png

I don't have swfmill at hand here, so maybe someone else wants to built it.

Matthias