2009/2/2 Akshat Kumar <aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net>: > 2009/2/2 Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com>: >> it might require a c-section. >> might want to start with VLC or ffmpeg. >> > > My aim was just to get 9fans talking about it. > Hence, the pushing. > > But yes, what information can you provide > about either of those, with regards to porting > or creating natively?
The Flash file format is an open standard (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/). To be useful for encoded video, you'd need a VP6 codec (which seems lolno) and x264. It would probably be possible to do at least the x264 stuff via ffmpeg, which is probably not too difficult to port -- it's pretty simple code and the codecs are easily portable. To be useful for anything else, you'd also need a bytecode interpreter that understood the compiled actionscript -- it's just a bytecode-compiled ECMAScript, and I believe its details are also found in that PDF. The rest is being able to display JPG/PNG raster images and antialiased TTF and vectors. (Flash allows you to embed fonts into the generated SWF output as well). --dho > ak > >
