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- SWFPLAYER
- ---------
-
- A standalone ShockWave player for the Amiga.
-
- Requirements:
- 68020 or better with a maths-coprocessor.
- Kickstart 3.0+
- A graphics card gives better results, but is not required.
-
- Usage:
-
- swfplayer FILE,PUBSCREEN/K,INFO/S,MONOSOUND/S,MAXWIDTH/K/N,MAXHEIGHT/K/N,ACTIVEPLAY/S:
-
- FILE The name of the .swf file to play.
- PUBSCREEN The name of the public screen to open on. e.g. IBrowse
- PUBSCREEN The name of the public screen to open on. e.g. IBrowse
- MONOSOUND Play all sounds in mono. Experimental option really.
- MAXWIDTH The maximum width window to use to play the animations. This
- is usefull to limit the size on lower resolution Amigas.
- Smaller window size play back faster too.
- MAXHEIGHT The same as MAXWIDTH but specifies the maximum height of the
- window.
- ACTIVEPLAY Only play animations while the window is active. When
- inactive swfplayer goes to sleep.
-
- Some examples:
-
- swfplayer amigarules.swf
- swfplayer amigarules.swf PUBSCREEN ibrowse
- swfplayer amigarules.swf PUBSCREEN ibrowse MAXWIDTH 640 MAXHEIGHT 480
-
-
- Notes:
-
- o The sound support is incomplete.
-
- o With <256 colours swfplayer doesn't produce very pretty output, 16 and 24
- bit modes are far better.
-
- o Big ShockWave files play pretty slowly, even on a 68060.
-
- o You'll have to download the .swf files manually because IBrowse doesn't
- support embedded plugins yet.
-
- Usually the best way to do this is to view the HTML source of a page
- which uses ShockWave and look for a line like this:
-
- <EMBED SRC="shockwave.swf" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash">
-
- Replace the URL of the webpage with the name specified by "SRC=". e.g.
-
- http://mysite.com/shock.html
-
- would become:
-
- http://mysite.com/shockwave.swf
-
- IBrowse should then ask you what to do with the file, you can either
- download to disk, or if an external viewer is setup IBrowse will download
- the file and setup.
-
- o Adding swfplayer as an external viewer in your browser:
-
- IBROWSE
-
- Under preferences -> General -> Ext. Viewer add the following:
-
- Type application/x-shockwave-flash
- Mime swf
- Action Ext. Viewer
- Viewer [path to swfplayer]/swfplayer
- Arguments %f
-
- You may wish to include additional parameters in the arguments section.
- It may also be an idea to add a ">nil:" because swfplayer sometimes
- outputs debug information if it can't play the file 100%.
-
-
- o There's a few sample swf files included you to try. Here's some others
- on the net:
-
- http://www.buffy.com/flash/menu.swf
- http://www.buffy.com/flash/finalhomeall.swf
- http://www.eye4u.com/home/eye4u_1a.swf
- http://www.macromedia.com/shockzone/shockhome.swf
- http://www.spe.sony.com/Pictures/SonyMovies/movies/Fifth/ver_us/home.swf
- http://www.spe.sony.com/Pictures/SonyMovies/movies/Starship/img/home01.swf
- http://www.spe.sony.com/Pictures/SonyMovies/movies/Starship/img/home02.swf
- http://www.spe.sony.com/Pictures/SonyMovies/movies/Starship/img/home03.swf
- http://clevermedia.com/arcade/crapinthewoods.swf
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