[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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