converting shockwave flash packages

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Perry

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Oct 21, 2016, 1:26:28 PM10/21/16

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We recorded several webinars using Readytalk back in the day. Each recording consists of several .swf files (player.swf along with files named 0.swf, 1.swf, etc), along with a lot of supporting files in various formats: txt, xml, png, jpg, mp3. Is there a way to convert these packages to a different format such as mp4? Most of the swf converters I've looked at are expecting a single swf file, not this bundle of files. I've seen one suggestion to simply play it and capture using Camtasia. Other thoughts or conversion recommendations? Thanks,

Perry Willett

California Digital Library

Chris Adams

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Oct 21, 2016, 4:06:32 PM10/21/16

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Perry <pwill...@gmail.com> wrote:

We recorded several webinars using Readytalk back in the day. Each recording consists of several .swf files (player.swf along with files named 0.swf, 1.swf, etc), along with a lot of supporting files in various formats: txt, xml, png, jpg, mp3. Is there a way to convert these packages to a different format such as mp4? Most of the swf converters I've looked at are expecting a single swf file, not this bundle of files. I've seen one suggestion to simply play it and capture using Camtasia. Other thoughts or conversion recommendations? Thanks,

I would start by using something like SWFExtract (http://www.swftools.org/) to see what kind of data is in the non-player SWF files. The degree of problem is going to depend on the original format – if they embedded something standard like an MPEG-4 video you can simply save that directly but if they used one of the older proprietary codecs you're probably going to have to take the transcoding quality hit.