http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: difference between SWF and FLV files? en Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:20:45 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1325#post-7910 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:48:25 +0000 ender 7910@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thank you all you three, alexiussg, Keilaron, Jucati</p> <p>I think, after reading the wiki article i understand a bit better.</p> <p>and i think, i have expressed myself not very clearly in my original post, I was just curious about the differences of those two file extensions.</p> <p>I have downloaded the swf-file already weeks ago successfully with orbitdownlaoder ( <a href="http://www.orbitdownloader.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.orbitdownloader.com/</a> )<br /> but up until the GOTD of two days ago ( Moyea SWF to Video Converter Pro ) I was not successful in converting it to .avi,<br /> I tried SUPER and MEDIACODER already, but i am not software savyy enough to made them work. </p> <p>my curiosity was, like i said, flv seemed to be so easy to convert with so many online-sites, thus SWF seemed not.</p> <p>but i am all good now, my newly converted swf file is working as avi perfectly. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1325#post-7880 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:59:17 +0000 Keilaron 7880@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>SWF is typically vector-based, i.e., rather than keeping information on what color goes where (for example), it will instead remember mathematical information such as "Draw a circle, this size, this color, with this deformation".</p> <p>FLVs are movies, on the other hand, and are just encapsulated inside SWF (I think); They contain an actual movie in another format, though I'm not certain what format that is (Maybe it's own, maybe just MP4, ... dunno).</p> <p>Actually, have a look at Wikipedia's page on the subject:<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video</a><br /> That should tell you all you want to know :&gt; If not, ask more questions :D </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1325#post-7868 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:52:42 +0000 Jucati 7868@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>SWF is a native file; that means, it's a Flash object (video/game/application) written natively in Flash and meant to be viewed/interacted with a Flash player.</p> <p>FLV is a flash video player. The buttons, progress bar, volume control, etc are all natively built in flash, but the video itself may have originated from any number of formats. I don't know all the specifics, but I think everything from .mov to .avi and others are supported in FLV conversion.</p> <p>I hope that helps.</p> <p>(if you want to download a .swf file, typically you should be able to find its actual location on the server you're visiting by checking the html source) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1325#post-7847 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:37:49 +0000 alexiussg 7847@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>use Super converter(www.erightsoft.com), but if your swf has mouse click events, sounds on-off button, play/pause buttons etc the converters won't work. :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1325#post-7843 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:11:16 +0000 ender 7843@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I was just wondering, does anyone knows here, what the difference between swf and flv files are??<br /> I just dl the goatd from yesterday , and it works perfectly for me, but i have always wondering, why those million of sites, that allow us to download and convert flv files for free from youtube &#38; co (like <a href="http://www.media-convert.com," rel="nofollow">www.media-convert.com,</a> <a href="http://www.zamzar.com," rel="nofollow">www.zamzar.com,</a> <a href="http://www.vixy.net" rel="nofollow">www.vixy.net</a> and two dozen others) but none of them worked with swf files. </p>