Re: SWF - Save seperate frames?

David Marceau <[email protected]> Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:19:28 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.ming.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Jeremy Kraft wrote:
> Still trying to convert a SWF to AVI (or MPG) - Is there any way that Ming can
> read & parse a .SWF and produce separate frames as images? .PNG or .JPG etc
> would be great .... If Ming does not do this, maybe another program does that
> any of you know about?
I think I understand you are using a video editor, you might want to embed some
flash into your video.  
May I suggest, not in a manual way but in a macro kind of way somehow, you just
play a flash and stop it on every frame, do a window device context capture to a
memory buffer, then place the contents into a jpg/png as you want.
It doesn't matter whether you are on windows or X-window, there are screen dump
utils for both. xwd and alt-f4 or alt-prtscrn.
Look around and you will find c api code for this stuff and then you can use
imagemagick or the likes to save it to a file.
It's not ming stuff but it is hovering close to the boundaries I think :)

It would be an interesting application 
for the open source flash player 
http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/
to take care of if it hasn't already ;)

Cheers,
David Marceau