How to save .swf video -

[JD]

On 05/23/11 10:47, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 23/05/11 13:35, Frank Cox wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 May 2011 13:29:08 -0400
>> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>
>>>           Is there a preferred way to save an ".swf" video clip?
>>>           Preferably a yum application. Google shows some offerings from
>>>           places I am not familiar with.
>> wget?
>>
>>
>      Wget doesn't seem to work. The file it saves is much too small and
>      VLC doesn't react to it at all? I tried a couple of times hence the
>      .swf.2.
>
>
>          [root at box9 bobg]# wget
>          http://www.northernoil.com/video/horizontal_shale_drilling.swf
>          --2011-05-23 13:14:59--
>          http://www.northernoil.com/video/horizontal_shale_drilling.swf
>          Resolving www.northernoil.com... 97.74.144.166
>          Connecting to www.northernoil.com|97.74.144.166|:80... connected.
>          HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>          Length: 65745 (64K) [application/x-shockwave-flash]
>          Saving to: “horizontal_shale_drilling.swf.2”
>
>          100%[=======================================================================>]
>          65,745 49.2K/s in 1.3s
>
>          2011-05-23 13:15:04 (49.2 KB/s) -
>          “horizontal_shale_drilling.swf.2” saved [65745/65745]
>
>
>
> .

[swf @ 0xb2601f00] Compressed SWF format not supported.
So that is why it was not recognized by vlc. Ditto with mplayer and fflpay.
Not sure what media player has a plugin to handle compressed shockwave.