Hi Glen, Thanks a lot; I added this to my checklist as well.
I found something like that; http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/print_screen/ http://fi.php.net/manual/en/function.imagegif.php cheers, N. On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Glen Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It looks like you could do a few things, here is my suggestion - there > are probably other ways too, so don't discount them. > > Part of it would be client side, the other part Server side. > > Take a snapshot of your frame - into a Bitmap. > > Look at libraries to compress that and send it across to your server. > > Then use Server side code to generate your file. > > For PHP, there is the GD library, but this does not always support GIF > because of the issues with the GIF algorithm not being open. However, you > could always consider PNG format. There is also the ImageMagick library. > Most decent PHP hosting has GD or ImageMagick installed. I can't speak for > ASP or other languages, but I am guessing there will be tools to do the > same. > > With AS3 being a lot faster, there is also the option of creating your > image on the client in the format you want, then posting this to the server. > > Have a look for "SWF to PNG" and other things. If you are not tied > into using GIF, these could provide a solution. > > > http://www.flepstudio.org/forum/tutorials/507-swf-png-actionscript-3-0-bytearray-class.htmlprovides > a good insight into the process of how you can go about this. > > HTH > > Glen > > Necati Koptagel wrote: > > I need to take a snapshot of the first frame, not extract image files from > the SWF file. There are already tools for that on SWFtools. Furthermore, it > has to be on serverside, therefore google links will not work. > > I found something like that on SWFTools FAQ: > > http://www.swftools.org/faq.html > > *19.) How can I convert SWF frames to bitmap?* > There's a "swfrender" utility in the CVS, which isn't finished yet, and > will only work for *very* simple SWF files. (No Actionscript,no > gradient fills, no morph shapes, no blending modes, no filters, etc.) > Probably other Flash Open-Source projects (like Gnash) have some > more sophisticated utilities for this. > > That could work great; if it worked completely. > > N.- > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Mark Winterhalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Chris Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you comparing apples to oranges? A >> > SWF is a package that includes bitmap, vector, sound, and program >> > logic, whereas a GIF is essentially just a bitmap. >> >> Not necessarily. An SWF used to be a format for animations, the rest >> came later. Animated GIFs can contain, well, animations. >> Of course you can't have interactivity or logic in an animated GIF, >> but you can well have badgers and mushrooms (without sound) -- for, >> say, a thumbnail preview it does make sense. >> >> Mark >> >> _______________________________________________ >> osflash mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org >> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing [EMAIL > PROTECTED]://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > -- > > Glen Pike > 01326 218440 > www.glenpike.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > >
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