Flash (swf) encoding/converting

swf is not a video format. It's an entire Flash file that can be played by the Flash player, and can include actions (scripts), interactivity, and a lot of other things that have no resemblence to simple video files.

If you want to convert a movie so you can play it in Flash, flv is your format. You'll need a Flash video player that references the flv file, and the video player (not the videos it plays, though) should have the swf extension.

- Martin

 

Cool,

I don't use ffmpeg, so I don't know what to tell you. I encode my Flash movies with Adobe's Flash Professional.

Maybe someone else here can help you, but you should give us a few more details, especially how you run ffmpeg and what format the input movie is.

- Martin

 

FLV is your format here. Try something like Sorenson Squeeze to convert that video to FLV.

Now, once you have the FLV you need to, in Flash, add an FLVPlayback component (Flash8) to the stage and reference the video file within the component inspector. Then you'll have a FLV (video) and SWF (player) and need to upload BOTH those files AND any skin SWFs exported as well to the website in question.

 

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