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[egypturnash]

Huh, the 'fullscreen' thing that Youtube and all the other Flash video sites is a feature of Flash, not of the FLV decoder. I'm surprised every damn little Flash game isn't offering this.

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[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

I figure the workflow you want is embodied in two command-line programs: one to convert from swf to mov*, one to convert from mov to flv. The latter obviously exists, or YouTube wouldn't exist; the former, I'm not so sure about. Look on places like osflash.org.

Alternatively you could just, well, put the swf in the page. You'd be stuck with whatever loader and progress bar the animation's creator added (in other words, probably none). This is probably better for bandwidth purposes. (You could also have a little shell swf that loads in the actual animation, provides a standard preloader, and a scrubbable progress bar - but implementing a generalized scrubbable progress bar is a royal bitch.)

*where 'mov' is a stand-in for any video format - mpeg, avi, quicktime, etc.