I can't get MPlayer or Super to work.

[rayden54]

I'm looking for a program (or any combination of free/cheap programs) that can convert .swf, .ra, and .ram files to .avi and can download streamed .rm/.ram files.

I have Super installed, but I can't make heads nor tails of it. I know it's doing something wrong or I'm doing something wrong. Every time I tried to encode a .swf file, it gave me an error (and once resulted in a file with a "corrupted header" so I tried direct show. That just gave me a 12 second video telling me the file type wasn't supported.

So I searched around and found MPlayer. I have found a GUI package that did the "compiling" for me, but the GUI doesn't include an encoder so I've pretty much hit a dead end there.

I don't understand a bit of programming. I don't even know what a "command line" is, let alone how to use one (if in fact it is a usable thing).

Any step by step instructions would be greatly appreciated.

[redwudz]

A few guides that might help: https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?searchtext=&tools=&madeby=&formatconversionselect=FLV

I'm not sure about SUPER. It's about as simple of a converter as you will find. But some types of 'FLV' are not so easy to convert. Same with RMVB.

For capturing streaming files: https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=39#39 They may have guides for them on their toolpages.

[Ai Haibara]

I'm looking for a program (or any combination of free/cheap programs) that can convert .swf, .ra, and .ram files to .avi and can download streamed .rm/.ram files.

I have Super installed, but I can't make heads nor tails of it. I know it's doing something wrong or I'm doing something wrong. Every time I tried to encode a .swf file, it gave me an error (and once resulted in a file with a "corrupted header" so I tried direct show. That just gave me a 12 second video telling me the file type wasn't supported.

So I searched around and found MPlayer. I have found a GUI package that did the "compiling" for me, but the GUI doesn't include an encoder so I've pretty much hit a dead end there.

I don't understand a bit of programming. I don't even know what a "command line" is, let alone how to use one (if in fact it is a usable thing).

Any step by step instructions would be greatly appreciated.

Actually, the mplayer package includes/uses mencoder, which SUPER also uses (already compiled ). I'm not sure whether or not SUPER uses mplayer, but I think it may, for its internal player.

Conversion of SWF files depends on whether or not they contain an FLV digital video stream. If they're regular Flash videos, you'll have to use different means to convert them to an AVI.

SUPER can download RealMedia and Windows Media streams (and encode to a different format while it's doing it, if I remember correctly), but I haven't really tried it.

[rayden54]

Super has 4 things (ffmpeg, Mencoder, ffmpegtotheora, and producer) and I don't know what the difference is. Nor do I know what Directshow does. I don't know what Bitrate is, I don't know how may Frames/Sec I need, and I don't know what sampling frequency I need. But all that I can tolerate. I can play around with the settings.

What I can't do is make the file work. WMP and VLC won't open it and GSpot said the header's invalid. I don't know how to tell if a file has a FLV digital video stream or not, only that they end in .swf.

So what I'm left with is a mystery. I don't know enough about any of it to know which part is causing the error.

[rayden54]

Alright. I've figured out why Super, et al. wouldn't convert my .swf file. It wasn't an flv file. I ended up using Magic Swf2Avi.

Can anyone explain the settings Super uses (like bitrates)?