hacking x11 protocol

[Daniel Kasak]

Lucio Crusca wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a newbie here. Here is my problem:
> My customer asked me to setup a linux system so that it loops some flash 
> movies all the time (commercials).
> Adobe has recently released a standalone flash player for linux 
> (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz). 
> Quite a dumb one to be honest (it doesn't even support a playlist). So I've 
> written a bash script that fires up the Adobe player once for each SWF file 
> in a given directory. Each SWF file is a fullscreen commercial ."Fullscreen" 
> is an attribute (or something like that) embedded in the SWF file.
>
> The problem is that when my script opens a new instance of the player, the 
> player first displays its window for a fraction of a second and then goes 
> fullscreen. That's quite ugly to see between commercials.
>   

Depending on what version of Flash the commercials are in, you might be
able to convert them to mpeg or something and play them with a better
player. I think mplayer can play some flash movies ( as well as convert
them ).

Dan