Mirror swf from left to right

alexhob123 · September 17th, 2023, 05:36 PM

hi everyone quick question i have lots of swf files is there any way to make them be mirrored from left to right and then play them like that

here is what I mean

alexhob123 · September 17th, 2023, 05:38 PM

this is the original

**Jazz67** · September 18th, 2023, 06:04 PM

assuming you're using VLC (and if not, why not?

)

Code:

https://itsfoss.com/rotate-video-vlc/

alexhob123 · September 19th, 2023, 03:15 PM

no I am not it is a swf file

**Jazz67** · September 19th, 2023, 09:04 PM

yeah, it's just a Flash video in a container, VLC plays those

Code:

https://www.quora.com/Can-VLC-open-SWF-files
https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-open-an-swf-with-a-vlc

alexhob123 · September 27th, 2023, 05:42 PM

how do i open flash flies in vlc or can you not do that anymore

**Jazz67** · September 27th, 2023, 06:03 PM

right-click and Open With, for an individual file.

right-click, Preferences, and then change the Opens With default app to VLC for a permanent change.

on a Mac the default app is changed in right-click, Get Info

**deepsepia** · September 28th, 2023, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexhob123

how do i open flash flies in vlc or can you not do that anymore

In addition to the useful advice that Jazz67 offers -- and for anyone struggling with media, VLC is always the first place I go -- with SWF media, it makes a lot of sense to do a batch conversion of these files, as they're a bit of a nuisance.

Shockwave was an Adobe media presentation format, output from Flash (originally developed by Macromedia, who were bought by Adobe) -- the concept of it was sort of "a PDF for web media"; if you go back 15 years or so, that's what the best looking websites were coded with.

. . . but a ton of work on coding websites, and increasing security problems with Flash encoded websites, meant that it is now obsolete.

SWF content can include lots of things -- its a presentation format, but in the case of old erotic material, what's actually going to be _ in _ that SWF, is actually likely an MPEG-1 or possibly and MPEG 4 media asset embedded in the SWF (MPEG-4 was introduced in 2001). If the SWF material includes animated vector graphics from Flash (and it could,

If you plan on working with a lot of these -- consider doing a batch conversion, using Handbrake for example. You don't want to re encode, just to effectively "pass through" the MPEG content to an MPG or MP4 file. I'd do this with Handbrake, but there are a lot of choices.

An *.mpg or *.mp4 file is going to be a lot more flexible in the future.

UriF · September 28th, 2023, 05:58 PM

It is a very big headache to convert swf into mp4. As you know Adobe doesn't support swf anymore, and Microsoft removed swf built-in tools in Windws 10 & Windows 11. VLC NOT ALWAYS is able to watch swf files. You can extract built-in video but if it is a vector graphic it is a impossibly. Therefore all of convertors PLAY swf video and RECORD them as mp4. In some situations it would be helpful to use freeware Swivel but it generate a video with dimensions are MUCH greater than original video. Commercial ThunderSoft has conflicts with some sound cards. Commercial Bigasoft return non-proper video sizes. More or less good result you can get with commercial Xilisoft

I tried to de-compile original swf file using Adobe Macromedia Flash but it swf password protected and you don't know a password it is your choice to use commercial de-compiler which not always return a proper result. I used one of them and tried to open a de-compiled swf using Adobe Macromedia. As result I got a mess. If you try to convert swf into video using old Macromedia into avi or new Adobe After Effects into mp4 you will get a video without sound. It is an old Adobe bug but they still refuse to accept and fix it. That's it.

By the way if you a Linux guy there were an old application which extract a raw video from swf and then you can use a bash script to convert this raw video into mp4. You can still find this script at internet but I didn't try it. I hsome small swv videos I and converted them into mp4 using trial version of Xilisoft.

**deepsepia** · September 28th, 2023, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UriF

It is a very big headache to convert swf into mp4. .

I do it in Handbrake, as I mentioned above. You may have to download an additional tool -- I didn't, I think it depends on whether there's any vector content in the SWF container, instructions at

Code:

https://www.movavi.com/support/how-to/convert-swf-to-mp4.html

September 17th, 2023, 05:36 PM	#1
alexhob123 Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 50 Thanks: 51 Thanked 307 Times in 39 Posts	Mirror swf from left to right hi everyone quick question i have lots of swf files is there any way to make them be mirrored from left to right and then play them like that here is what I mean

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Jazz67 SuperMod, supergroovy Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Lost in the Forest Posts: 6,002 Thanks: 49,643 Thanked 45,980 Times in 5,961 Posts	yeah, it's just a Flash video in a container, VLC plays those Code: https://www.quora.com/Can-VLC-open-SWF-files https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-open-an-swf-with-a-vlc __________________ Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.

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Jazz67 SuperMod, supergroovy Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Lost in the Forest Posts: 6,002 Thanks: 49,643 Thanked 45,980 Times in 5,961 Posts	right-click and Open With, for an individual file. right-click, Preferences, and then change the Opens With default app to VLC for a permanent change. on a Mac the default app is changed in right-click, Get Info __________________ Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.

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September 17th, 2023, 05:38 PM	#2
alexhob123 Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 50 Thanks: 51 Thanked 307 Times in 39 Posts	this is the original

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alexhob123 Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 50 Thanks: 51 Thanked 307 Times in 39 Posts	no I am not it is a swf file

September 27th, 2023, 05:42 PM	#6
alexhob123 Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 50 Thanks: 51 Thanked 307 Times in 39 Posts	how do i open flash flies in vlc or can you not do that anymore

September 28th, 2023, 05:58 PM	#9
UriF Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 178 Thanks: 232 Thanked 1,161 Times in 149 Posts	It is a very big headache to convert swf into mp4. As you know Adobe doesn't support swf anymore, and Microsoft removed swf built-in tools in Windws 10 & Windows 11. VLC NOT ALWAYS is able to watch swf files. You can extract built-in video but if it is a vector graphic it is a impossibly. Therefore all of convertors PLAY swf video and RECORD them as mp4. In some situations it would be helpful to use freeware Swivel but it generate a video with dimensions are MUCH greater than original video. Commercial ThunderSoft has conflicts with some sound cards. Commercial Bigasoft return non-proper video sizes. More or less good result you can get with commercial Xilisoft I tried to de-compile original swf file using Adobe Macromedia Flash but it swf password protected and you don't know a password it is your choice to use commercial de-compiler which not always return a proper result. I used one of them and tried to open a de-compiled swf using Adobe Macromedia. As result I got a mess. If you try to convert swf into video using old Macromedia into avi or new Adobe After Effects into mp4 you will get a video without sound. It is an old Adobe bug but they still refuse to accept and fix it. That's it. By the way if you a Linux guy there were an old application which extract a raw video from swf and then you can use a bash script to convert this raw video into mp4. You can still find this script at internet but I didn't try it. I hsome small swv videos I and converted them into mp4 using trial version of Xilisoft.