Convert large SWF to AVI?

[tripflex]

Can anybody please help me out with this. I have a 180mb SWF which is a lecture from one of my online classes, when i try to watch it i can watch about 20 minutes and then it will run out of memory. I watched in my task manager as Flash player went from only using 20mb to upwards of 500mb and it kept going up, it's like the more i watch it just keeps going up and up. Tried it on 3 different computers and still get the same problem, is there some way to convert it to an AVI so i cant watch the whole thing? Flash player keeps crashing, tried using some converting software and that software crashed too! Anybody know of any software that actually works for large SWF files? Please help i have a test coming up!

Thank you!

[Baldrick]

What software have you tried?

I would try a ffmpeg frontend like winff or xmedia recode.

[tripflex]

i tried using super but that didn't help out at all

[Ai Haibara]

Run the SWF through a utility like MediaInfo (in Tree View), and copy/paste the resulting information here.

If it's an actual Shockwave Flash animation, and not FLV video either renamed to .swf or embedded in the .swf, generally, the only way you're going to be able to convert it is to capture the video while it's playing, using a program like CamStudio or Fraps.

There are an array of commercial/shareware tools that claim to be able to convert Flash (Shockwave) videos to AVI, but I haven't tried them, and don't recommend them.

[tripflex]

Okay, here's a screenshot:

[poisondeathray]

Sounds like a memory leak , and/or the file might be damaged

Have you tried other players? e.g. kmplayer , or even internet explorer or firefox ?

[tripflex]

Have not tried kmplayer but i've tried it through chrome and firefox and those programs just keep going up in memory until they crash too

[Ai Haibara]

It still looks suspiciously like a standard (non-FLV) Shockwave Flash video, to me. That MediaInfo gives information about the video but not any possible codec is odd. It could indeed be corrupt, as poisondeathray mentioned.

For standalone playing, I usually play .SWF files in Media Player Classic/MPCHC, or sometimes, IrfanView. I'll admit I've never tried to play a 160MB SWF, though.

You could also try seeing if FLV Extract can demux anything from the SWF, but I doubt it. Is there any possibility of re-downloading the video again, just to see if it did happen to turn out corrupt, the first time?

[tripflex]

Chances are it's with the encoding the teacher did. The only solution i found was to watch the first 20 minutes, close the application, open it back up and start from where i left off. Thanks for everyone's help though!

[EYE]

Try increasing the Virtual Memory size (paging file) of the operating system.

[tripflex]

Found the solution! Turns out, i'm assuming the encoding the teacher did was for Quicktime 7.1. I uninstalled the new version of quicktime and installed 7.1 and voila!