I haven't figured out how to play shockwave swf files on linux, but this weekend I discovered an online converter for flash video flv files. I have been ripping a bunch of great music from youtube into mp3 using this site: http://vixy.net/ It seems that most flash files are FLV rather than SWF these days anyways. I have adobe flash player playing FLV in opera and firefox as streams, but that vixy site is a quick way to capture just the audio as mp3 or the video as MP4, MOV, or even 3GP for phones. Linux multimedia has come a long way in recent years. -- Doug
