On Saturday June 23 2007 11:58:32 am Temlakos wrote: > I discovered vlc a long time ago--I got tired of trying to make totem > work and gave up. > > Vlc will not play Flash video; mplayer will. Other than that, vlc will > play just about anything. I've also used it to take screenshots from > movie files and DVD's. NOT true - I just went through an interesting exercise on this very subject. I had to download a video from YouTube for use in something. I found that playing it created a file in /tmp that was a bunch of numbers with the letters fl in it. I opened it by clicking on it and telling the popup dialog to open it with VLC. It opened - I was then able to use VLC to convert it to files I was able to use in my other editing software. I was on deadline, and didn't have time to figure out all the settings. I had to convert to windows media to get the video, but that produced no audio. So, I converted it to an audio codec that was listed, and after a couple of tries, I was able to put a working sound file and a working video file together on a timeline in my Sony Vegas editing software (on my Windows laptop), and create the whole file. But, I digress. The main point is that VLC played the flash... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD
