Re: [Ming-dev] swftoXXXX and bitmaps extraction

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:15:46PM +1100, Justin Clift wrote:

> If you're asking whether files that get extracted should have an
> extension that matches their file type, then absolutely.

Not really what I was asking.
I'm thinking about an intermediate step, *before* extracting.
This step would be expecting user to perform extraction manually,
using another tool (until one is provided by Ming).

A tool I know for this, currently, is swfextract from SWFTools.
This tool extracts bitmaps into either JPEG files or PNG files
and I dunno based on what. If I know what the policy is, we
can use the same one to guess what would the filename be called
when generating script code (C++,perl,php,python, whatever)
from an SWF.

An attempt to test this (see how swfextract extract bitmaps
based on tag type):

TAG_TYPE          FILENAME                    PNG  JPG
-----------------------------------------------------
DEFINEBITS        2008-election.swf           N    Y
DEFINEBITSJPEG2   215251_escapetheroom.swf    N    Y
DEFINELOSSLESS2   2008-election.swf           Y    N
DEFINELOSSLESS    215251_escapetheroom.swf    Y    N

Question is: is it general that DEFINEBITS results in a jpg 
or can it be a png too ? (for example).

--strk; 

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