AVI on Linux with ffmpeg

[nibl]

There should be a way to use ffmpeg for movie output on Linux.

AFAIK, you can convert SWF to avi or MPEG-4 with ffmpeg on Linux, *if* the SWF is uncompressed. That doesn't give all features, but at least you get AVI or MPEG-4 on Linux with some convenience. It doesn't work for me with the current SWF files AS produces.

Any chance?

[Genete]

PD: I'm also linux user and to create movies without soundtrack use those pairs of commands:
png2yuv: this command line tool comes from the mjpegtools package. You convert a png sequence to a yuv stream (looseless quality). It would produce a filename.yuv
ffmpeg -i filename.yuv -sameq yourfile.mov. I suppose you know ffmpeg usage. Wink
To include a soundtrack I use cinelerra.

I have thought several times about this feature. Finally I prefer the image export. If you want professional results you would like the best quality in your source animations so for that image sequence is the best. Also however in linux you have thousand of possibilities to convert images to a movie, it is difficult (and would be stupid) choose to one of them to be used to this task. Some do the job better than other. In fact the majority of them uses internally ffmepg. (cinelerra have its own encoder, though)

Meanwhile to make the life a litter easier you can insert a mplayer wrap created by fazek (wow fazek's tools are amazing!!) into the palette tool. In that way you can play the image sequence easily.
Even if you hate command line operations maybe you can modify the tool to export the image sequence to an avi movie with mencoder.

Forget converting swf to avi. It would be crappy.
-G