.swf Flash Media Player? a proposal

[weehooherod]

There are many videos, games, applications, and soundboards that all use the flash file extension .swf. I propose a swf player for rockbox. What do you guys think?

[cool_walking_]

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/9061

[weehooherod]

the link above provides a .diff file. How do you compile .diff into .rock. Then i might be able to get this running.

[AlexP]

You will note that the task linked to says that it is not ready yet and doesn't even compile.  If you want to use it, you will first need to further improve it to make it work with Rockbox.

[MajiKool Dragonâ„¢]

well they had better hurry up with perfecting that thing because i need it.

[AlexP]

you will first need to further improve it to make it work with Rockbox.

[wraith10219]

i completely agree with the fact that an .swf player is needed but i also suggest fixing the way it plays any video, it never fits to screen and is always way out of wack.

[cool_walking_]

it never fits to screen and is always way out of wack.

This means you've encoded (or not) your video files to an incorrect height/width/aspect ratio.  Read the PluginMpegplayer wiki page.  If you have any more questions about this, start a new thread.

[MajiKool Dragonâ„¢]

i think its a huge waste of time having to re encode/trans code every darned video just to watch it on this thing

someone should make the player re-size it as it plays.

[gevaerts]

someone should make the player re-size it as it plays.

Sure, someone also just needs to overclock the cpu a lot then. Should be easy

[bascule]

someone should make the player re-size it as it plays.

You do realise how much processing power that would take, don't you? It takes a significant amount of time on my 2GHz desktop machine. You'd have a flat battery before it had finished re-sizing the first few frames 

[bluebrother]

i completely agree with the fact that an .swf player is needed

I completely disagree.

[Strife89]

Honestly, what good is a .swf player for Rockbox? With the exception of pure audio or video, Flash applications are designed for PCs, meaning they would be unwieldy to operate at best on a DAP. In addition, most Flash code needs a powerful CPU to run it decently, and no DAP has a powerful CPU by today's standards. (You'd need a good deal of RAM, too.)

And if there's a way to convert video or audio in a .swf to a standard, Rockbox-usable format, I sure haven't heard of one.


Going OT a little, there's plenty of content on YouTube. Firefox users can get the Video DownloadHelper add-on to download the videos, then use WinFF to convert them to a Rockbox-usable format.

[ZincAlloy]

you don't need a video download helper. with a little trick you can download directly from youtube as .mp4. check this out: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/download-youtube-videos-as-mp4-files.html
it would be extremely comfortable if rockbox could play these without conversion, but I doubt that would be possible..

[GodEater]

It might be possible - indeed one of the Google Summer of Code proposals (which wasn't accepted I'm afraid) was an h.264 video player (one flavour of MP4).