I know this has been probably asked a lot, but I did really search on google before making thread, didn't find anything other than people saying it's not possible.
I was wondering how can I create thumbnails from SWF/FLA files/games in PHP?
Anyone? I am using temporary solution which is uploading a thumbnail image together with swf/fla file. But is there really no other way?
If it is for games aren't you just going to end up with images of the main menus most of the time? You could do it but you're going to get way better results if you take the screenshots yourself and you're going to waste less time trying to get it to work well.
[QUOTE=KmartSqrl;38790470]If it is for games aren't you just going to end up with images of the main menus most of the time? You could do it but you're going to get way better results if you take the screenshots yourself and you're going to waste less time trying to get it to work well.[/QUOTE]
That's the thing, I thought there is some kind of function in PHP that allows to take pic of specific frame or timing in game. But I guess I will just go the simple way.
There's probably a million libraries for extracting resources and bytecode from SWF files, but for actually running it and creating a thumbnail I'm not so sure. Wouldn't something like what you described require it to actually run the SWF under Flash (therefore requiring X to be running) then take a screenshot after a couple of seconds?
[QUOTE=SteveUK;38800581]There's probably a million libraries for extracting resources and bytecode from SWF files, but for actually running it and creating a thumbnail I'm not so sure. Wouldn't something like what you described require it to actually run the SWF under Flash (therefore requiring X to be running) then take a screenshot after a couple of seconds?[/QUOTE]
Yeah I ended up going with simple way: forcing people to upload thumbnails themselves, if they don't -game doesn't upload, simple as that.
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