[MPlayer-users] CD .swf Data and Audio with Linux

[raen7 at ihug.com.au]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, rcooley wrote:

r>>On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:12:00 +0400 (MSD)
r>>Vladimir Mosgalin <mosgalin at VM10124.spb.edu> wrote:
r>>
r>>> 
r>>> And there is nothing "self-executing" about swf file... If it has
r>>> executable flag, that's just because CD was made with windows
r>>> software.
r>>
r>>I think you got the wrong idea.  Many SWF files are made into .exe
r>>files, which I assume is what the poster is talking about.

>Um.. Then "btw it is(s)"he needs some program to strip off executable parts. 
I've
>written one, but it is very simple and dumb, because I wrote it
[...]

My apologies for asking this non Mplayer question. I should have said from the 
outset that it was in desperation because the Macromedia site was no help on 
this point and my first thought was that people on this list are very 
experienced with lots of different video files and getting them to play on 
all sorts of systems. FWIW I managed to get it to run. I mounted the ISO9660 
filesystem and the data track on the CD was this:

.  ..  Autorun.inf  READ ME Windows.txt  almanac2004.exe  dor2003.ico

I then cheated and ran the .exe file in wine and it worked. The right thing to 
do would have been as suggested above to strip out the executable parts that 
are some sort of built in player I am informed. Such a task is beyond my very 
limited knowledge.

RLS