Make a thumbnail of Flash objects about vish HOT 12 CLOSED

Likely add a swf/flash model and view extending document. Maybe to social_stream

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Flash movies should not be a problem, if there are a video file into the swf file, ffmpeg can take a snapshot of a frame.
The real problem is to generate thumbnails of any swf file, to take a screenshot of a flash file you need to executed it to see it.
It doesn't look an easy job.

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You are right, I just renamed the bug to say "Flash objects"

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These tools could be useful: http://www.swftools.org
GPL license

SWFExtract Allows to extract Movieclips, Sounds, Images etc. from SWF files.

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A Paperclip Processor should be easily written inside the swf/flash model that called swftools

http://rdoc.info/github/thoughtbot/paperclip/Paperclip/Processor

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It seems like swftools has swfrender exactly for this purpose. It creates a png file, which should be good enough. Now all we have to do is make it play with paperclip.

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Why is it a vish_editor issue?

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Well, the main (I dare say only) use for this is to embed SWF objects at the editor. It's definitely not a vish_editor issue and as such it's open at the vish tracker, not at the vish_editor one.

I understand the vish_editor label as the issue being related to vish_editor. If you prefer, you can say this issue blocks the development of vish_editor and as such may be of interest to the developers of that project.

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OK, I agree. This semantic seems very convenient

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Please notice: we haven't forgotten about this issue, but it's rather complex, so we'll get to it after Wednesday's meeting.

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I've been testing a bit SWFTools.
It has two interesting tools: 'swfrender' and 'swfextract'.

Swfrender generates a PNG of the SWF file, appears to be the first frame.
The problem is that it's very common that this image don't represents the SWF file content.

With Swfextract we can extract images (JPEGs and PNGs) included in the SWF file.
Problem: Not all SWFs include images, and again, it's very common that images don't represent the content.

One option is to offer the user the different images to choose the most appropriate.
Or more simply, add the image obtained by swfrender and cross your fingers.

Vish Editor now shows flash objects accompanied by their title, so, the thumbnails generation may be not extremely necessary, however, would be a nice optional feature.

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We do treat SWF files as a separate type of document ever since this social_stream commit. However, generating a thumbnail is both cumbersome and unreliable.

You can now fetch SWF files as you do with pictures and videos. The name of the controller is swfs.

Closing for now.

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