Recent versions of QuickTime haven't been able to open files. For days, I've been searching for a way to convert a SWF animation to a QuickTime movie without having to downgrade QuickTime. Then I remembered -- I already have an old version of QuickTime on my system in Classic!

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Sure enough, the Classic version of QuickTime both opened the SWF and converted it into a QuickTime movie. You'll need to have Quicktime Pro in Classic to make it work, and newer versions of Flash are probably not compatible with the older version of QuickTime. Yes indeed a very annoying issue. I used to use lots of SWF for Vjing using Modul8.like 100's.i had to convert them all after the 7.3 update to MOVS. Luckily i had an ageing PBG4 lying around which had QT 7.2 on it. It converted the files fine to MOVS ( used Animation Codec for Alphas and PJPEG for colour SWFs) I hope someone can write a QT plugin that can playback SWF, unlikely i know. Also trying to downgrade to QT7.2 using pacifist hosed my system good and proper.so don't advise this.

Apple once again have annoyed me and many other people by 'quietly' removing features and adding unstable elements to QT. My MP4 playback is really bad stutters when it plays backwards and a whole host of other issues. There are some programs for PC that do batch conversions, still yet to find a mac native program that does the job. VisualHub (and FFmpegX for that matter) can convert SWF files that are container formats for FLV video.

This is why there is the checkbox for 'Raw.flv format' in VisualHub under the 'Flash' tab. But SWF animations are a whole other thing. Rather than video, they consist of things like still images moving along a defined vector. As far as I know, there is no native OS X program to convert them to video.

SWF and FLV player, if you buy the Pro version, will convert SWF animation to an image sequence, which can then be converted to video using any version of QuickTime Pro. Jyu has it dead right in his/her comment, here. 'Why not just use SWF and FLV player ()?

Saves all the troubles of using classic and Quicktime to convert. Why do you want to convert anyway, since you can have a small app to play the files?' Why convert away from.swf files when they are so small already? Latest version of outlook for mac 2016. Just download them and play them with the freeware SWF & FLV player you can download from the website referenced by jyu, above here. It works great.

I just now downloaded, saved, and played.flv files from ChessVideos.TV and.swf files from Internet Chess Club. You don't need ANY program just to download them--just use Safari's own Activity window and Downloads window in the drop-down box under Window in the main menu. After you see in Activity that the big.swf or.flv file is fully loaded into the online player at the website, you just copy and paste it using Cmd-C and Cmd-V into the Downloads window.

And they play back perfectly with the SWF & FLV Player. BTW, Quicktime with Perian will run.flv files, but Quicktime will NOT run.swf files, with or without Perian. The reason WHY people want to move away from SWF files is because with the recent drop of SWF support in QT, there are issues in other applications being able to play them. Eg: Keynote uses QuickTime to play media files. When Apple updated QT and dropped the ability to play flash files, anyone who used flash in a presentation (and thats a LOT of people (including me)) LOST the ability to run their presentations with the animation or flash vids. This is why we're converting SWFs from their nice, crisp, tiny files into massive video files; because Apple made us need to.

Don't know how this comment system works:P* The reason WHY people want to move away from SWF files is because with the recent drop of SWF support in QT, there are issues in other applications being able to play them. Eg: Keynote uses QuickTime to play media files. When Apple updated QT and dropped the ability to play flash files, anyone who used flash in a presentation (and thats a LOT of people (including me)) LOST the ability to run their presentations with the animation or flash vids. This is why we're converting SWFs from their nice, crisp, tiny files into massive video files; because Apple made us need to. Hello, donsherio- Yeah, I certainly see your concern. Dropping.swf capability from QT must have been a kick in the gut to you people with professional presentations already made.