How Many Would Be Interested

[Azalin]

Well? Is there enough interest for me to post the process? It took me many hours to figure out >_>

 

[Lupin]

can I watch and play flash games???? I would be very interested any either myself

 

[shinneri]

Probably record them as AVIs, right? I think that would be a very useful guide.

 

[Lupin]

oh recording to avi i can do that thats easy. but he said .swf so I think he means flash files

 

[wipeout2000]

Yea youtube files on my gp2x would be awesome

 

[Fishbong]

Youtube isn´t flash.
If you want to watch Youtube on ur GP2X (or any other PMP), get the Firefox Video Downloader extension and use it to download the files, then convert them with the appropriate software.

 

[iignotus]

Youtube is flash. wtf? lol. Then what am I doing with all these FLV files downloaded from youtube with the UnPlug firefox extension...

 

[ledro]

Well, if we would be able to play flash on the gp2x that would be absolutely wonderfull.

 

[sehs33]

Flash? SWF? On GP2X? Is it possible? Yes Yes Yes

But I guess this project can be divided into sub projects, let us first support Flash Lite v1.1, it doesn't need most of the resources needed by recent SWF versions, then we can jump to Flash Lite v2, and Finally we can try Flash 8 (which I think is impossible, but who thought psx emulation was possible at first? ).

There are many companies out there that create Flash Lite v1.1 & v2.0 commercial games. Guess it wont be hard to attract them once we have stable player/projector.

Edit:
BTW, it should be clear that a player that only plays FLVs is not a Flash player, there is much more in Flash than FLVs, so are you talking only FLV player or complete SWF player Azalin?

 

[PokeParadox]

<-- Interested.

 

[nickspoon]

I think he just means the conversion of .swf movie files to DivX/XviD. If not, well, I'm very interested.

 

[Megagun]

Google video:
http://keepvid.com/ -> fill in the thing for Google video (do NOT include the search query when you past a GVideo URL therE) and get the .AVI... easy!

Youtube:
http://keepvid.com/ -> fill in the thing for a Youtube video URL, get the .flv and convert it with FFMPEG:
ffmpeg -i moose.flv -acodec copy -vcodec xvid moose.avi

I think that does the trick and should work... But then again this is offtopic

 

[Alex.]

Youtube is flash. wtf? lol. Then what am I doing with all these FLV files downloaded from youtube with the UnPlug firefox extension...

Just the video player is flash I believe, not the videos themselves.

- Alex

 

[sehs33]

The videos are Flash Videos, they are called FLVs, they were first produced to be used in technologies/products like Macromedia Breeze, what differs them to normal divx videos is that they are streamable, just like the difference between MP3 and WMA. Another great thing about FLVs is that you don't need codecs to play them, as long as you have Flash player 8 or above (97.3% of the computers connected to the internet have it installed) you can watch FLVs.

 

[aapje89]

I think he just means the conversion of .swf movie files to DivX/XviD. If not, well, I'm very interested.

 

[CABBAGES]

search for tvharmony autopilot you can use that to get videos from youtube and other sites like it.

 

[Azalin]

Ahem, yes i was erferring to a painless way of converting .Swf files to Divx format. I've done it to a few Newgrounds flashes so far and they work wonderfully. I can't get gamews to play though, unfortunatley This is merely a quick and dirty way of watching the ultimate showdown with your friends while in math class.

I'll post process tonight or tomorrow >_> Probobly tomorrow, i'm tired.

 

[iignotus]

For all those on linux, here's a bash script that downloads and converts youtube videos to mpeg files. I take no credit, and feel free to hack it to output to DivX or whatever:

#!/bin/bash
bu="http://youtube.com/get_video.php?";mkdir -p ~/YouTube;cd ~/YouTube;read -p "YouTube url? " ur;read -p "Name? " nv
wget ${ur} -O /tmp/y1;uf=${bu}`grep player2.swf /tmp/y1 | cut -d? -f2 | cut -d\" -f1`;wget "${uf}" -O /tmp/y.flv
ffmpeg -i /tmp/y.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 ${nv}.mpg;rm /tmp/y.flv; rm /tmp/y1;rm gmon.out; exit