Re: [Swftools-common] Video codec

[Matthias Kramm]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 05:06:56PM -0700, Leonard Holman wrote:
> Hello Matthias, thanks for the response.  The Swf docs
> say that the h.263 is lossless, so there is still
> quality loss in the conversion then?  

h.263 is lossy. The new Flash 7 screen video is lossless,
but with h.263, you do have quality loss.

> If there is quality loss, then this is something that might not be
> worth looking into.  I was wanting to extract the
> highest quality video I could, but it seems that this
> might not be possible then.  

Nope. You can only extract video of that quality as it
is visible when you play the SWF file itself.

Greetings

Matthias