On 05/23/11 10:47, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 23/05/11 13:35, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Mon, 23 May 2011 13:29:08 -0400 >> Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >>> Is there a preferred way to save an ".swf" video clip? >>> Preferably a yum application. Google shows some offerings from >>> places I am not familiar with. >> wget? >> >> > Wget doesn't seem to work. The file it saves is much too small and > VLC doesn't react to it at all? I tried a couple of times hence the > .swf.2. > > > [root@box9 bobg]# wget > http://www.northernoil.com/video/horizontal_shale_drilling.swf > --2011-05-23 13:14:59-- > http://www.northernoil.com/video/horizontal_shale_drilling.swf > Resolving www.northernoil.com... 97.74.144.166 > Connecting to www.northernoil.com|97.74.144.166|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 65745 (64K) [application/x-shockwave-flash] > Saving to: “horizontal_shale_drilling.swf.2” > > 100%[=======================================================================>] > 65,745 49.2K/s in 1.3s > > 2011-05-23 13:15:04 (49.2 KB/s) - > “horizontal_shale_drilling.swf.2” saved [65745/65745] > > > > . [swf @ 0xb2601f00] Compressed SWF format not supported. So that is why it was not recognized by vlc. Ditto with mplayer and fflpay. Not sure what media player has a plugin to handle compressed shockwave. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
