Re: [pygame] Flash content

["Bob Ippolito" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/8/07, Joan Planas Illas <joan.planas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> En Luke Paireepinart ha escrit:
> > Joan Planas Illas wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm working on an app using Pygame and VLC(for video) over an Opengl
> >> frame . I'm trying to get Flash working but I haven't found anything
> >> that suits my demands. I want newer Flash files to work but I saw
> >> that Gnash and swfdec don't deal with flash versions higher than 7.
> > What are your 'demands'?
> > If you just  want to play them you should be able to use the official
> > flash player and use subprocess to open a file with it, right?
> > Do you need it to be portable?
> > Are you trying to display flash in an OpenGL frame?
> Hi Luke, I don't simply need to play the Flash files, but I need to
> embed them into a Glut window and also control the execution flow of
> that window.

There's only two ways to embed Flash: the Netscape plug-in API, and
ActiveX on Windows. It's going to be extremely difficult to do either
way, especially in an OpenGL context. You might as well give up.

-bob