Re: [Swftools-common] Editing the dimensions of the stage

[Chris Pugh]

On 9 April 2010 11:52, Joe Billings <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a SWF file that I'm passing FLV files in through FlashVars - trouble 
> is, if the videos are different aspect ratios they get squashed into the 
> dimensions of the original stage. Is there any way I can either:
>
> a) Access my SWF file through SWFTools and change the stage (and FLVPlayback 
> instance) dimensions to match that of the video being passed in?

If by 'stage',  you are referring to the Bounding Box, then
swfcombine's -X and -Y flags
will change the Width and Height respectively, of the SWF.  Grabbing
the dimensions
of the flv is possible after 3 frames or thereabouts are loaded in,
yes?  However..

> or
>
> b) Generate a SWF file from Actionscript that has access to the video source 
> files (so I can add a FLVPlayback instance to the page) using SWFTools?

.. as far as I am aware ( I've not tried it lately), swftools does not
support flv playback.
Someone please yell at me if it does now!  There was a basic
ancoder/decoder support
in the source code at some stage.  That said, there are plenty of flv
components/players
out there which may be adapted, for example,

     http://code.google.com/p/flv-flash-fullscreen-video-player/

or you can code it yourself if you really must, using the Netstream
object, and then
compile outside of swfc.

   http://www.mtasc.org/

   http://haxe.org/

If you are using Adobe tools, there is I believe an FLVPlayback component?

Anyway, HTH somewhat.

Regards,


Chris
> Many thanks,
>
> Joe
>
>