text tools for dealing with swf anyone

[Chris Brannon]

Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Some googling seems to
> indicate that ffmpeg can decode swf files, but the ffmpeg on my debian
> testing system claims that compressed swf isn't supported. I obviously
> don't give a hoot about the video, or scripts, I just want to extract the
> audio. So, does anyone know of any new way to do that from the text
> console? Thanks.

You might have better luck building ffmpeg from source.  It's quite probable
that your distro disabled support for SWF.

There's a package called swftools, and it contains a utility named swfextract.
I've never used it, so I can't say much about it.
The homepage is <http://swftools.org/>.

-- Chris