converting .swf files to .rock files???

[Username:*]

I was wondering if there was converter out there where i could convert .swf files (flash games found on ex. addictinggames.com) to .rock files?? i tried to save the file as a .rock file when downloading and it worked but when i tried to open it it sayed content not supported... this is intresting because windows defines it as a .ROCK file ...

It would be nice if someone could have a converter they found to share

[Chronon]

Rockbox only plays MPEGs.  The extension for Rockbox plugins is .rock.  If you want to convert to a supported format then check out the PluginMpegplayer page in the wiki.

[Username:*]

Then how did they create the snake game and such??? Is the helicopter game just a bunch of jpegs moving in order or a mpeg movie with the counter and the highscore saver??? When i downloaded rockbox for my nano it came with some games that look like i could find them on the internet...

Just wndering if i could download swf files from a website and be able to play them on my nano

[Chronon]

Ah.  Sorry.  I thought you were talking about flash movies, like on YouTube and other sites.

To make a game for Rockbox you have to have access to suitably licensed source code and port it over to work with Rockbox.  Or you have to write a clone of the original game from the ground up.

[bluebrother]

i tried to save the file as a .rock file when downloading and it worked but when i tried to open it it sayed content not supported... this is intresting because windows defines it as a .ROCK file ...

No. Windows doesn't "define" any file content. Windows only recognizes files based on file extensions, not based on their content. Thus, you can give any file any arbitrary extension and windows will recognize it as such -- for example, if you rename an executable (.exe) file to say .doc windows will think it's a word document now and try opening it with word (which obviously won't work). If windows doesn't know the file extension it will simply call the file type the same using upper letters -- for example, if you don't have word installed on your computer (and no other program that registered the extension .doc) windows will call word files simply "DOC file".

[Delta009]

i tried to save the file as a .rock file when downloading and it worked but when i tried to open it it sayed content not supported... this is intresting because windows defines it as a .ROCK file ...

No. Windows doesn't "define" any file content. Windows only recognizes files based on file extensions, not based on their content. Thus, you can give any file any arbitrary extension and windows will recognize it as such -- for example, if you rename an executable (.exe) file to say .doc windows will think it's a word document now and try opening it with word (which obviously won't work). If windows doesn't know the file extension it will simply call the file type the same using upper letters -- for example, if you don't have word installed on your computer (and no other program that registered the extension .doc) windows will call word files simply "DOC file".

on Linux, file extensions don't have any importance : the system "scans" the files instead to determine which kind of data it is
so, changing the extension doesn't change the file itself : it just changes the way Windows handles it
an obvious example of this : if you rename a program from ".exe" to ".txt", the result won't be the source code of the original file, it will just fool the system into thinking that the file is a text document, which is false (just try it on your computer: it will just crash notepad...)

renaming a .swf file to .rock doesn't convert it automatically to a rockbox plugin (it would be too easy )
it's far more complex than that
and as far as i know, there are no flash players on rockbox

[bluebrother]

on Linux, file extensions don't have any importance : the system "scans" the files instead to determine which kind of data it is so, changing the extension doesn't change the file itself

You can't say it that generally. It's not the system "scanning" files, it's the applications -- for example konqueror does so. But it's not required to do so -- it's just usually done that way. If you, in contrast, consider the "file open" dialog of KDE applications they usually filter based on file extension.

if you rename a program from ".exe" to ".txt", the result won't be the source code of the original file, it will just fool the system into thinking that the file is a text document, which is false (just try it on your computer: it will just crash notepad...)

If the file isn't too large it's more likely it'll just show up as garbage ...