Flash Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v3.03, by Dr. Herong Yang
"swfdump" - Dump SWF File Header
This section provides a tutorial example on how to dump header information of a SWF file. Header information tells you SWF version, frame size, rate and counts.
Now let's try SWFDump with default options on the Yahoo Flash file used in previous chapters:
C:\herong>\local\SWFTools\swfdump yahoo.swf | more Reading of filter type 06 not supported yet Reading of filter type 06 not supported yet [HEADER] File version: 8 [HEADER] File is zlib compressed. Ratio: 52% [HEADER] File size: 37536 [HEADER] Frame rate: 18.000000 [HEADER] Frame count: 323 [HEADER] Movie width: 217.00 [HEADER] Movie height: 85.00 [045] 4 FILEATTRIBUTES [009] 3 SETBACKGROUNDCOLOR (ff/ff/ff) [00c] 181 DOACTION [020] 85 DEFINESHAPE3 defines id 0001 [01a] 6 PLACEOBJECT2 places id 0001 at depth 0001 [020] 553 DEFINESHAPE3 defines id 0002 [027] 4 DEFINESPRITE defines id 0003 [01a] 6 PLACEOBJECT2 places id 0002 at depth 0001 [001] 0 SHOWFRAME 1 (00:00:00,000) [000] 0 END [046] 33 PLACEOBJECT3 places id 0003 at depth 0002 [002] 69 DEFINESHAPE defines id 0004 [027] 4 DEFINESPRITE defines id 0005 [01a] 6 PLACEOBJECT2 places id 0004 at depth 0001 [001] 0 SHOWFRAME 1 (00:00:00,000) [000] 0 END [046] 132 PLACEOBJECT3 places id 0005 at depth 0004 -- More --
The SWFDump output tells me that:
Table of Contents
Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Firefox
Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Chrome
Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Safari
Adobe Flash Player ActiveX for IE
Using "object" Elements for Flash Files
Using "embed" Elements for Flash Files
"mp3player" - MP3 Music Player
SWFObject - Hidding "object" behind JavaScript
►SWFTools - SWF File Manipulation Tools
Downloading and installing SWFTools
►"swfdump" - Dump SWF File Header
"swfdump -E" - Generate HTML Code
JPEG2SWF - JPEG to SWF File Conversion Tool
"jpeg2swf *.jpg" - Create a Slide Show
PDF2SWF - PDF to SWF File Conversion Tool
"pdf2swf" - Convert PDF to SWF
"master and slave" - Viewer and Page Frames
SWFCombine - SWF File Merging Tool
"swfcombine masterfile viewpoint=slavefile"
"swfcombine -a" - Concatenate SWF Files
"swfcombine -d" - Change Frame Rate and Size
SWFC Script to Generate Flash SWF Files
ActionScript Embedded in SWFC Script
AS3Compile - ActionScript 3 Compiler