SWF Player

Feature requests for VLC.

What media players do you wish to remove the most?

VLC Media Player
1
6%
WIndows Media Player
7
44%
FLV Player
1
6%
Quicktime
4
25%
Media Classic
0
No votes
SWF Player
3
19%
 
Total votes: 16

pop7897
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SWF Player

Postby pop7897 » 14 Oct 2006 09:32

Hey vlc should be able to play SWF files,
I have to have a seperate player called swiff player (google it) to play these files.
Swiff, real, quicktime for itunes, and vlc are my only remaining players
and I would love it if SWF was added and also real media, but i don't see that happening.

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Do you mean?

Postby h2g2bob » 19 Oct 2006 19:24

Do you mean SWF (Shockwave Flash = the animation, the play button and other gubbins) or FLV (Flash Video = the actual video, which you are often able to sneakily download using UnPlug, KeepVid or Videodownloader)?

I doubt if VLC will support SWF in the forseeable future, there are no good open source decoders for this. Even reading the SWF to find where the FLV data is held would be, in my view, incredibly difficult due to it often being spawned from complex ActionScripts.

FLV support is already avaliable in 0.8.6. You can try the nightly builds ( http://nightlies.videolan.org/ ) - but be warned they are only development versions.

vlcfiend

SWF

Postby vlcfiend » 29 Oct 2006 06:24

I doubt if VLC will support SWF in the forseeable future, there are no good open source decoders for this.
There is "GNASH". It just should progresss faster. I really hate the "official"
Player :-(

What should be kicked out first (see poll) is WMP of course ... then MacroFlash, QuickPlayer, and all the other crap ...

and what should remain is one good player with one good classical video codec (Theora ?) and one good player for "analytical" movies (like SWF).

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SWF and Quicktime are compatible...

Postby KnewTV » 27 Dec 2006 06:40



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