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.swf Flash Media Player? a proposal

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bascule:

--- Quote from: blingcash on August 28, 2008, 09:28:20 AM ---someone should make the player re-size it as it plays.

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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  :P

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: wraith10219 on August 27, 2008, 10:33:20 PM ---i completely agree with the fact that an .swf player is needed
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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).

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