[Ambulant-users] playing Flash .swf's in Ambulant

[Jack Jansen]

On 3 jun 2008, at 22:21, Kent Kersten wrote:

> Hello list, is it possible to play Flash content (.swf files) in  
> Ambulant? I have been googling to try and find an answer to this to  
> no avail.

It is not possible directly, but there may be a workaround: try  
creating a small HTML wrapper file (basically just an embed/object tag  
for the Flash player) and pass that HTML file to a <text> tag in SMIL.  
The swf will be free-running, i.e. it will be blissfully unaware of  
the SMIL document being paused and such, but it may work well enough  
for your application.

If you do try this: please report back whether it works (I never got  
around to actually trying it:-). If it does work we could consider  
putting that glue HTML inside Ambulant itself so you could refer the  
the Flash file directly. And (dreaming on:-), then we could add bits  
of Javascript glue too, so Ambulant could actually have some control  
over Flash playback.
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