[Gllug] Creating SWF content on Linux

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wed, August 23, 2006 5:21 pm, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>
>> I can generate the video - eg through mencode/ffmpeg - but embedding
>> that
>> on somebody's web page and getting it to play is another matter - so i
>> suppose what I am looking for the way to build a container for flash
>> video
>> along YouTube lines
>
> Building a player is a task that only needs to be done once, you then tell
> it which video file to load (via a bit of config and actionscript) and use
> the same movie over and over again.
>
Not wishing to reject what I am sure was a genuine attempt to help, let me
thank you for telling me something I already knew :)


> To create that container I would recommend either (a) using a Windows
> machine as it's just not worth the time and effort to figure something out
> via the FOSS route; or (b) bribe a Flashmonkey to do it for you.
>

I bet Bill Gates wishes Linus Torvalds had the same outlook :p

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