[Gnash-dev] export Flash animation as still frames or movie file, rather than just display?

[John Beale]

Dear Gnash developers:

First off, thank you for the very useful program even in pre-1.0 form.
Apologies if Gnash already does this and I just couldn't figure it out...

It would be very useful to be able to export a flash animation to a 
rendered file, either separate image files (eg. IMG001.PNG, ...etc.) or as 
some video format.

In my case, I do video production with Windows XP. A client wants his 
website flash animation as video on a DVD.  I was able to sort-of do this 
using Gnash 0.7.1 and the "Camstudio" screen capture app: the flash plays 
smoothly, but the screen capture often shows missing or duplicated frames. 
It doesn't seem to be a processor speed issue; using the gnash -d option I 
slowed playback down from 15 fps down to 1 fps but the captures still skips 
just as much.  A direct file export from the flash player seems like the 
cleanest solution.

best regards,
John Beale
www.bealecorner.com