Re: [Vnc2swf-users] Support of SVG or other free formats ?

[Yusuke S. <yu...@cs...>]

MF <mag...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been playing with vnc2swf for the past few days and would like to
> ask if there are plans to support creating SVG files instead of SWF. I'd
> like to use this in other projects where the target audience would not
> have a flash player and I am concerned about the legal aspects of
> reading and creating SWF files, as many may have seen in this recent
> article:
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/29/2339216

Yes, I've read that article, too. I agree with you in that we
could have a better open format instead of SWF. For screen
recording, however, perhaps MNG format is more appropriate,
because SVG lacks a bitmap fill support.  But MNG also lacks audio
streaming.  Currently SWF is the only format which supports both
animation and audio, but I am not a zealous advocate of this
format.  Especially I want to use OGG format instead of MP3, which
is currently impossible with SWF.

Here's an interesting comparison between SVG and SWF:

http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/comparison_flash_svg/

> Perhaps this is not the place to start a huge "Flash vs. SVG" or
> "Gratis, under-NDA vs. Free, Open" endless debate, but I'd like some
> indication of the direction vnc2swf would have. I have  aproject in mind
> where I could justify some funding to have an SVG version, is this
> something others would also chip in ?

Well, believe or not, I'm definitely pro-open or free format. And
I think adding supports for other formats to pyvnc2swf now is
relatively easy because of its nice redesign ;)
Maybe I can look into those specs this weekend, and figure out
how we could support any of them.

Yusuke