Flash to AVI

Swf2avi by Rick Harris is a nice shell script and the only flashplayer (.swf) to .avi converter afaik and is thus the best flash to avi converter available.

Requirements

• Flashplayer - http://www.macromedia.com/
• X11 - http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
• Wmctrl - http://sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/
• Xautomation - http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html
• Xvidcap - http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/
• Swftools - http://www.quiss.org/swftools/
• Esound - http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html
• FFmpeg - http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/
• Wavsplit - http://sourceforge.net/projects/wavsplit/
• avidemux - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Note: The script does not mention that you need avidemux; but indeed you do need it to get sound.

Esound without alsa

The script requires esound - which does not work on many system (including mine) when compiled with alsa-support. Compile with ./configure --disable-alsa or USE="-alsa" on Gentoo.

Gentoo users

You highly likely already have the following packages installed:

• emerge xorg-x11 esound

But perhaps not:

• emerge netscape-flash wmctrl xautomation xvidcap swftools ffmpeg wavsplit avidemux

The script

Download: Swf2avi-0.4.sh