Swf or flv files on Quicktime.

I would like to know how to convert swf or flv files to Quicktime. It's been quite frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.

Quicktime can't play SWF flies. Quicktime stop being able to play SWF files about 5 years ago because of security issues with the files. Quicktime could only play SWF file from Flash version 5 and below. Anyway, if you could convert the SWF file to Quicktime you will loose most of the SWF animation.

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If you put the page, the .flv file, the .swf files, and the Scripts folder online, we should be able to help. Otherwise, all we can do is make wild guesses as to what you've done.
BTW, the most common mistake is forgetting to upload the Scripts folder if this is what I think it is.
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Firefox should display .swf and .flv files without Adobe. You can do it can't you?

If the program, 'Media Player Classic' can play .swf and .flv files, the surely Firefox programmers can do for those what was done for .pdf files. PLEASE!

hello, mozilla is indeed working on it, but this is not an easy task...
https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2012/11/12/introducing-the-shumway-open-swf-runtime-project/

Uploaded swf and flv files - right ?

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i've got it right as yet ! Could someone with experience in flash
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You can publish your project as MP4 with Cp6. For that --
Do -- File-- Publish-- Media--- (Choose Dropdown) MP4 and (adjust settings, if you like) Hit publish.
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Although Adobe has now abandoned .flv as a supported format (which is too bad) I used it for putting embeded cue points into the movie to trigger Flash actionscript and create essentially closed captions (under the video).
Then I use the .swf movies within Director.
The problem is, on my machine, and some others, it works as expected. On some machines, the .flv never loads and therefore never plays. The Flash video component skin looks like it's just constantly trying to download the movie (green bars moving in the playback scrubber).
As a work-around; I now have put in text behind the videos saying "Due to the Adobe vs Apple Wars, the video isn't palying on all Apple computers. Please type 'a' to play the video in a window, and 'x' to close that window before proceeding".
That, essentially, opens a MIAW (Movie in a Window) using lingo from the director shell, which just plays a Quicktime movie...and a bar underneath that reminds them to type "x" to close the window.
The difficulty with that is multi-fold; including
having to supply all videos in (2) formats (Quicktime and FLV) which is pushing the size limits of a DVD,
and more importantly it doesn't have the cue points for closed captioning. I believe there are ways to embed that in the Quicktime movie; but that will be an additional burden, and
it's still not a very graceful way to integrate video playback. The .flv's look great; and the I like how the playback component skin can have audio control, timer references, etc.
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A couple things may be at work here, and most likely related to the software installed on the targeted systems.
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I have an flv file and the same flv file in an swf file. Both
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> I have an flv file and the same flv file in an swf file.
Both files are
> the
> same size.
That's just a coincidence.
There is different baggage / overheads with FLV vs SWF. So
you will usually
get some differences .. sometimes SWF smaller, other times
FLV. However,
the actual video payload is the same in both, and the audio
is similar too,
and they are the bulk of the file size. So there shouldn't be
a huge
difference in file size between SWF an FLV.
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File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
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