Gregory Nowak wrote: > Some googling seems to > indicate that ffmpeg can decode swf files, but the ffmpeg on my debian > testing system claims that compressed swf isn't supported. I obviously > don't give a hoot about the video, or scripts, I just want to extract the > audio. So, does anyone know of any new way to do that from the text > console? Thanks. You might have better luck building ffmpeg from source. It's quite probable that your distro disabled support for SWF. There's a package called swftools, and it contains a utility named swfextract. I've never used it, so I can't say much about it. The homepage is <http://swftools.org/>. -- Chris