Issue 124: Flash avatars
Reported by jadest...@gmail.com, Dec 15, 2007
 Posted by guest at 2007-07-10 07:13:47

maybe you can make allow view(transport) flash-avatars? with swf2gif or other?

Posted by Z_God at 2007-07-14 21:39:27

This sounds very interesting, but I think it could be quite heavy on the
server.
Atm, not even normal animated gifs animate properly. Also swf2gif is not a
Python lib I guess & thus not always available?

Posted by guest at 2007-07-15 12:39:33

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http://ming.sourceforge.net/

Ming is a C library for generating SWF ("Flash") format movies, plus a
set of wrappers for using the library from C++ and popular scripting languages
like PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby.
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http://pyswftools.sourceforge.net/

This library is intended to be a level up from the Ming SWF library and a step
down from a Flash GUI. It contains a Gimp Script-Fu plugin for better (there is
an existing C routine but this does not allow for the definition of the
attributes) exporting path specifications as SVG images.

Also part of the library is a Svg2Python (badly named as Svg2Flash) which
allows
SVGs to be converted to a Python class that may be included in any other python
class.

Finally, there a number of geometry shapes defined for better defining shapes
and manipulating these.

At the moment, the library can be used in Python applications (including
WebBased applications) to generate Flash animations on the fly.
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Posted by jadestorm at 2007-07-16 18:42:06

Is the expectation that the flash animation itself be send on to the XMPP
client
or that it be converted to GIF?  I'm not certain, but I don't believe flash is
currently "allowed".

Posted by guest at 2007-07-19 07:54:49

no. flash2gif on transport. gif on client.