[PLUG] open source swf tools
John Jason Jordan
johnxj at comcast.net
Wed May 13 01:50:07 UTC 2009
On Tue, 12 May 2009 16:36:54 -0700
Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> dijo:
> Animated GIFs work in open office, but they display slowly and
> jerkily. They display faster embedded in web pages via Firefox,
> but they still look grainy.
>
> Meanwhile, my distro provides an open source package called
> "swftools" which includes a tool "png2swf". I wrote some
> programs in C, linked to libgd, to write animated GIFs, frame
> by frame. Now I am retooling the programs to write PNG frames
> to a directory, and combining them with png2swf. While I
> cannot show SWF movies from within openoffice, I can show them
> with Firefox, and I will be building slide shows around that.
>
> You can see one of the animations at:
> http://www.server-sky.com/local/ap02.swf
>
> It shows 20 frames per second (as designed) on my browser. I am
> curious how it does with other browsers or slower computer speeds.
Animation of all views looked fine in the latest Firefox installed on
Ubuntu x86_64.
The only other browser I have installed is Opera 9.something. It
couldn't display the animations and instead popped up a dialog box
asking if I wanted to open it in Movie Player (Totem). I tried it, but
Totem threw up an error. Back in Opera I tried again and this time
tried VLC. Again I got an error message.
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