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SWF (ShockWave Flash) is the format used for Flash objects.

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How can I play a .swf file using Google Chrome?

I have a *.swf file, and I don't have flash player installed on my Windows XP machine. Is there any way to play the .swf file using Google Chrome or is there any web app that allows me to play .swf? I ...
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How can I view .swf files within Mac OS X?

I have been sent a number of .swf files as attachments. I wish to view these within Mac OS X. I used to drag them directly into Safari and it would display them. However, after installing Safari 4 I ...
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How to play SWF files without browser

I like to play some downloaded Shockwave Flash (.SWF) files without opening my internet browser. Sometime ago, I remember I could do it just double clicking on the SWF item. Then it was opening in a ...
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Is there a way to convert SWF animations to movie files on Linux?

Is there any Linux tool that will take a SWF file and output some kind of video format? Note that I don't want a tool which will re-encode an embedded FLV or MP4, I want to take a standard Flash ...
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How can I force Chrome to refresh a page, ignoring cached Flash files?

A couple other questions on superuser.com discuss the shortcut ctrl+F5 in Chrome. In theory, that shortcut should cause Chrome to refresh the current page while ignoring cached content. However, it ...
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How to save streamed Flash (SWF) files

I know how to save Flash (swf) files with or without software and on different web browsers, but there are some files which load (stream) the data (may be a certain set of frames) from their web ...
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Convert Flash SWF to Video File Format (e.g AVI) on Mac OSX

I want to convert the SWF Flash with Audio file to Video File (AVI). I do not use Adobe Flash Editor. Is there stand alone SWF converter software for MacOSX?
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A command-line tool to convert SWF to SVG?

I need to convert a whole bunch of static SWFs to SVGs and I was hoping that there was some sort of command line tool I could use so I could script it with PowerShell. Does anyone know of such an ...
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Downloading video from SWF

If I am seeing a SWF video in my web browser (sample: http://www.somename.com/swf/x92154) how can I download the video to disk? If I use Save As it is saving .swf, not the video.
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How to batch print SWF files to PDF?

I am using windows 7 X64. I have installed Adobe Acrobat, so that I have a virtual PDF printer. I have also install the adobe flash player on the system. I open the SWF file using the flash player, ...
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Converting SWF to WMV

I've been searching on the web for tools (online and desktop) to convert SWF files to WMV. We don't have the original FLA files anymore, and these SWF contain how-to software instructions. Some ...
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Open source/free .fla file editor? [closed]

Is there any free software to edit .fla file? Platform: Linux or Windows will do.
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Is there a command-line application for converting a one-frame Flash movie to SVG?

Is there a command-line application for conversion of a one-frame Flash movie to SVG? This project doesn't contain any files.
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Export flash file frames as images [closed]

I have a flash (.swf) file consisting of 10 frames. Note that this is not a flash video file (.flv) Each frame is composed of 50 separate objects that are positioned appropriately (either manually or ...
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What command line tool can extract images from SWF files?

I'm desperately searching for a command line tool that allows you to extract images from an SWF file. I'm only interested in the images.
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How do I convert SWF into a PDF?

I want to convert a SWF document to into PDF. The SWF can be found here (Update: no longer available): http://www.imsindia.com/online/tests/test_111.swf And I would like to be able to convert or ...
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How can I make my video streaming faster?

I wonder how could I insert a high-quality video in my webpage providing fast downloading for my users. I have a video which is around 80 MB large. It's two minutes long. I have it in M4V, OGG and ...
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File -> Create projector" is greyed out in Adobe Windows Flash Player Projector 14

I want to convert a SWF to EXE with Adobe Windows Flash Player Projector. To create the .exe from SWF I am supposed to go to "File -> Create projector" but the option is disabled: Why? Note that the ...
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How can I get the resources from this SWF flash file? Or at least resize it?

Usually I can grab a SWF from firefox's tools --> page info --> media section. Then I can decompile it with sothink decompiler, and save the resources. But this one flash site is different ...when I ...
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How to integrate the Flash Player installation with multiple browsers on a given computer?

After installing Flash10 player; the installer integrated it into IE (which was where I'd started from). I assumed it would also have been integrated into my Seamonkey, and Chrome browsers. Not ...
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How do I convert an .exe file to .swf?

I have an executable file that was converted from .swf. It may have been converted with Macromedia Projector. How do I re-convert it back into a .swf file?
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Chrome downloads swf over opening it

I realise this exists, but it's for Ubuntu and useless to me. I don't have that file. With that out of the way... I'm having issues opening a .swf file in Chrome. It was opening fine last night (and ...
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Download Flash Video from Flickr

There is a video I would like to download from Flickr (please note that video is Licensed under Created Commons) I have tried Download Helper (FF Add-On) and it does not see the video. Also I have ...
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How to convert SWF to uncompressed AVI?

Can someone explain how to convert .SWF files to uncompressed .AVI files. Which software I'd need or a tutorial I could use?
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How to reduce file size in swf files?

I'm trying to reduce the file size in a swf file that is 17 MB in Ubuntu 14.10. I tried using swftools and avconv. When I did swfcombine -dz file.swf -o file_new.swf swftools only managed to ...
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Convert compressed SWF to AVI (or MPEG etc) via FFmpeg

ffmpeg -i compressed.swf out.avi gives the error [swf @ 0x10180b000]Compressed SWF format not supported so I tried swfcombine -d compressed.swf -o decompressed.swf ffmpeg -i decompressed.swf ...
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ffserver, ffmpeg, flowplayer - stream delay

Good day to all I have a little problem with a stream. I configured a ffmpeg to get a stream from vlc and then stream it again over http with ffserver. Ok... the problem is this: if I configure ...
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Convert SWF/FLA back to PDF [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I convert SWF into a PDF? I have a number of graphics and text only SWF and FLA files that I'd like to convert to PDF preserving the text and formatting. Printing to ...
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SWF to JPG conversion

Are there any command line utilities (apart from swfrender which seems to be currently broken for big resolution output) which would allow me to convert .swf files to raster images (preferably .jpg ...
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Converting Word .doc file to a Flash Swf file

I am looking for a way to convert .doc files (Microsoft word) to swf. At the moment I am copy pasting each page from Word to an .fla(in a Flash authoring tool) and then publishing it as an swf. ...
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Want to convert .pdf into .swf(as3) file

How can I convert a .pdf file into .swf(as3) file ? Any suggestion ??
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Free Windows application to convert SWF to WAV?

Is there a free application for Windows to extract the sound from an SWF file into WAV? I tried opening the file in VLC 1.1.11, but it just crashed, and 2.0 is pretty recent so I'd rather wait. ...
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Convert large JPG to zoomable SWF

I have a largeish JPG (2400x1000) of an organogram. It would be good to be able to convert this JPG into an SWF that could be zoomed with the mousewheel when displayed within a webpage. Is this ...
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Ubuntu lost GNOME installation, cyclic dependencies when reinstalling GNOME

Take a look here first. After solving that problem, I noticed that KDM won't let me select GNOME session. I just have KDE and xterm. I reinstalled GDM and switched to it, but I still can't start ...
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Capture a Flash swf video as a series of images

I'm looking for a program that takes a Flash swf video, and exports images at n frames per second. I've heard of such tools, but I can't come up with the right search terms.
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How to block/disable swf in firefox?

I want block swf (flash) in firefox. How?
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Large swf file player

I have a large (442Mb) swf file containing a movie. I have found several swf players that can play it, but they all suffer the same problem. The progress slider does not seem to represent the full ...
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SWF to FLV converter [closed]

Is there any freeware SWFL to FLV converter? or avi would be fine as well. Could not find any so far.
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How can I encode or mux h.264 streams in a SWF container? [closed]

Is there any way to encode a video file into a H.264 stream inside a SWF, or a program that allows muxing an existing (x264) stream into a SWF? If not, any other possible codec better than Flash ...
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How to convert flash video to screensaver?

I have a flash video that was developed by a third party, but would like to make it into a screensaver. I know there are tools for this, but have no idea which ones are best, free, etc. Any ideas?
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.swf file gets cut short after conversion to mp3 with ffmpeg

So I have a .swf file which i need to convert to .mp3 (or any other audio file), it looks like this: vytautas@vytautas-SATELLITE-C660:~/Desktop$ ffmpeg -i rem.swf ffmpeg version 2.2.git Copyright (c) ...
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How can I download an embedded .swf file that involves the video.limelight.com site?

I would like to extract the audio streams from www.springforesthealingfestevent.com - I can't figure out how to go about doing this. I usually can grab just about anything through Chrome using IDM - ...
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Viewing SWF files in Firefox 9

I can't find a way to instruct Firefox 9 to open .swf files that were downloaded through a direct link to the file. It just prompts the Download window. In Options | Applications there seems to exist ...
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How can I remove the right click menu from SWF files?

I have an SWF file and a HTML page - when I open the HTML page it will run my SWF file. When I right click on the SWF file I will see these right click menu items: Settings... About Adobe Flash ...
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Load SWF files from Cache permanently?

My question simply is how can I save My internet Browser cache(FireFox and Google Chrome) that I can reset this cache file any time explorer removes it? I asked this question because my Internet ...
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SWF -> Compatible YouTube format and retain ActionScript

I have an swf (just a sequence of slides with audio, timing controlled by actionscript) that I want to convert to a compatible YouTube format (flv, mp4, etc.). I've tried using the Moyea SWF4Tube ...
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How do I view the location of an swf file that is obfuscated somehow

Specifically, I'm trying to view Elmo's Keyboard-o-rama fullscreen. The original swf file has been moved and obscured. For a toddler, this game really needs to be full screen! The toddler doesn't ...
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Could not play shockwave flash object (swf)

I have shockwave flash object file (.swf) and it's corresponding meta file. But I can't play it in either Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11. I tried to install Adobe Shockwave player. Still, ...
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Open local html file with flash file

I have an old html file, how can I open local html file with flash file on my computer in 2021? Before adobe flash take down, I can open it, it is easy but now I can't open it. Please help
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How to open ROM files using SWF on Chromebook. (Specifically .nes and .gba right now)

I have a collection of .gba and .nes files that I would like to play on a Chromebook. This Chromebook is managed, And while I am allowed to use it however I want, I can't download APK files and stuff. ...
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