Flash SWF is the most popular video format that is widely applied to network. SWF format has small size and can be transferred very easily. All these advantages have made it one of the most commonly used formats by video websites.

It is more easier to watch flash SWF content online than anywhere else as long as you have the Adobe Flash Player pre-installed in your internet browser and most web browsers now did it already, for example, Google Chrome.

However, people are always trying to find ways that can play those flash SWF files offline, at anytime and anywhere they want. This blog today is exactly written for the purpose to introduce several popular media players with the power to play flash SWF directly on your computer.

Moyea Online Flash Downloader

Why: it can play and download both online and offline flash SWF files as long as you have a URL of it, the most important, it’s totally free!

How: all you have to do is to enter the webpage URL, the program will do the left. Click the Play button to play.

Moyea SWF to Video Converter

Why: professional flash SWF player, editor and converter, can proceed to convert any flash SWF file to popular video in a variety of formats.

How: import the flash SWF file you want to watch, use the Preview function button to play. Click Convert if you want to convert the current flash SWF file to other regular video formats.

Baidu Player (sorry they only have Chinese version at present)

Why: with perfect support to flash SWF file and other popular video and audio formats like WMV, AVI, MP4, RMVB, MKV and MP3, WAV respectively.

How: just like how you play the regular video: import the flash SWF file saved on your computer or enter the URL if it is available, click Play button to play.

These are 3 possible ways to play flash SWF files directly and instantly, please let me know if you have more to add. Try it and enjoy!

Upload and share your Flash animations! Sounds easy but actually difficult to do. Either you can not find the real websites that can accept the direct flash upload or you can not find the right tool to convert the flash you have to the specific format that the websites support.

However, seems we have found the best solution today for you to upload flash directly or convert flash conveniently.

The appearance of shareswf has no big difference with other flash-sharing websites: clean layout and easy navigation, lots of flash creations listed in various categories like Automotive, Designing, Entertainment and so on.

And all you need to do is login to your existing account and select a flash file from your computer to upload. Give your flash a title and tags, choose a category that can present the main content, and also upload a picture as thumbnail, then you are set to go!

After a while, you will receive a confirmation email said your flash has been successfully uploaded and a URL will be given to visit your uploaded flash online. In the Public Flash section you can view all your uploads.

Alternatively, as a backup plan, you can always choose to convert the flash file to regular and popular video formats for easy upload, using a handy Flash SWF to Video Converter.

Just set the output profile plus one click will take you there. The converted flash retains the best animation effect and can be easily uploaded to the major video or flash sharing websites.

Now, not only you can upload your flash artwork to internet with ease, but also you do have options to choose the best way you like. Happy uploading and sharing!

How to play and where to play Flash SWF files is one of the frequently-asked questions. We have written some articles about this before, but not in a systematical way. Therefore, we are going to summarize several media players today that can play Flash SWF files both on your PC end and Android supported devices.

Media Player for Playing Flash SWF on Android Devices

RockPlayer – The first multi-device, multi-format video and audio player for Android. RockPlayer gives your Android phone (more on which ones later) a formidable array of media playback capabilities which not even the iPhone can hope to match.

Below is the long list that RockPlayer supports:

Media Player for Playing Flash SWF on PC End

SWF Opener – Double-click any SWF file on your hard drive to get it played right away or conveniently view and save cached SWF files from the attached SWF Cache Viewer.

Flash SWF Downloader – Perfect online Flash SWF viewer and downloader as well. Just enter the webpage URL of where the Flash is to play directly in the program. Proceed to download this Flash if you feel like to.

Flash SWF Converter – The built-in Flash player provides instant preview of your saved Flash SWF files. The property of this selected SWF is also available aside for your reference.

Media Player for Playing Flash SWF on both Android Devices and PC End

Flash SWF Converter – convert all kinds of Flash SWFs to MP4 exclusively optimized for Android devices or to other popular video in a variety of formats for playback on other portable devices and computer media players.

webOS, rather than WebOS, is an HP-owned mobile operating system. There are not too many stories behind this adjacent logo because its initial release was just two years ago in 2009.

Very recently, HP announced several new webOS devices, with various versions of the operating system, including the HP Veer and HP Pre 3 smartphones, running webOS 2.2, and the HP TouchPad, a tablet computer released in July 2011 that runs webOS 3.0.

Let us have a look at the webOS features in the chart below and get to know why webOS is called the new ways to be amazing.

Sounds great! And now you can find the definite answer to the question: does webOS devices support Flash playback? That is for sure! webOS comes with the support for the Adobe Flash Plugin 10.1, so does the Flash content display!

However, is this the only way to play Flash on webOS devices? Absolutely not! There is an indirect way to do it: convert the Flash file to regular video/audio/image formats, which are easily accepted by almost all the devices no matter which OS it is using.

All you need is a Flash to Video Converter like this one:

And the operation is as easy as ABC. Step 1 to import your original Flash file, step 2 to choose your desired output video format, and last step 3 to customize other advanced settings and start the conversion.

This is basically a how-to blog and firstly, let us talk about the possibilities. I have heard so many comments said that it is impossible to make flash SWF files become the picture formats, due to they are two totally different utilities. Well, the truth is we can and we can do it better! The following content will show you how!

A chart that will show you what picture formats an SWF file can be converted to and what we can do to make the converted picture format perfect.

When we talk about the possibility, we want to let you know that it is definitely ok to convert flash SWF to picture, convert all kinds of flashes to picture(the ones with extremely-low frame rate and the ones with extremely-big file size); and when we talk about the options we have, it means we can do it better, for example and as you can see from the chart above, you can convert flash SWF to more than one picture formats, and you can adjust several parameters to make the output picture format perfect!

The 3-step tutorial below will demonstrate exactly how to convert SWF to picture and how to make the picture format hi-quality.

1. Import the SWF files to Moyea SWF to Video Pro, no worries about your cranky SWF files, cause it can convert whatever it plays.

2. Directly click Capture button to save the current flash image to picture format or click Export tab to convert the whole flash to your desired picture format among several options.

3. Click Settings to enter the advanced profile menu where you can manually adjust several parameters to get the best picture output format.

Last, open the folder where you choose to save the converted pictures, and enjoy!

Windows Media Player 11 is very pretty(though the latest version of Windows Media Player is 12 already), however, it’s not able to play SWF file – also called flash file – under the default settings.

If we do insist to open SWF file with Windows Media Player, a security alert will pop out and remind: Your current security settings do not allow this action. Why is that? Windows Media Player itself doesn’t support playing SWF files, so when the search decoder discovers Flash Player ActiveX installed in IE, the alert beeps.

How to solve the problem? Type gpedit.msc in Start-Run menu to open Group Policy, choose User Configuration – Administrative Templates – Windows Components – Internet Explorer – Security Features – Local Machine Zone Lockdown Security, then doule click All Processes on the right.

Last step, choose Disabled in All Processes Properties menu.

Now, try to play flash SWF file again and enjoy the unique flash playback in your familiar Windows Media Player!

Moreover, you have the following two choices to play flash SWF files:

1. Play flash SWF files while the downloading process using a flash SWF downloader: it can auto-detect online flash SWF files, play(preview) them and then download them to your PC;

2. Play flash SWF files while the converting process using a flash SWF to video converter: it can play(preview) SWF files, customize flash effects and convert all kinds of flashes to popular video, audio and picture formats with ease.

If you are a Social Network Site(SNS) master, I am not surprised at all that you possess Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, etc. at the same time.

Twitter is fast, succinct, easy-to-use, but not that multimedia-friendly, and has 140 character limit; MySpace is self-oriented and it is more like a personal territory to display who you are and what do you like; YouTube, no doubt, is a video-sharing site that would bring you and your friends more visual enjoyment. What about Facebook? Well, it is a combination of them all and gives you 100% freedom to express yourself using all the medias like video, audio, picture, blog, note and so on.

Facebook is a totally open space that you can add almost anything you like, including flash swf file. It is quite tricky to add flash animations, for example, flash e-cards, flash movies, flash games, etc to facebook because unlike the way you add video or audio to facebook directly, you have to install an extra tab, or extension, to make your flash artwork playable on facebook.

Before we get to know how to add flash SWF to facebook, let us have a glance at the current and the most popular tabs that facebook already has: Wall, Notes, Video and Photo.

Then we come to the point: the way makes Flash SWF work in your facebook. First, make sure you had switched to your facebook page, search “fbml” in the searching box located on the top of your facebook page.

Visit the “Static FBML” page and add this application to your own page. Click “Edit Page” button on the top right to enter the page editing interface, and then choose “Apps” from navigation bar on the very left.

Now you will see the FBML application you just installed. Click “Go to App“to add your own flash to your facebook page right here.

Kindly remind two very important things here: make sure your flash SWF is hosted either by your own server or by other websites, get the URL of this flash file that you are going to add to facebook; make sure you include the following codes in FBML tab as well.

Note: replace the first URL with your own flash file’s URL and replace the second one with a picture URL as your flash icon.

Save changes and then quit the FBML edit interface, your added flash animations on facebook will look exactly like this:

Let us get the point without beating around the bush. How to import SWF files into Sony Vegas so that you can proceed to create a unique video with many video editing features available to use? Well, this simple-but-complicate question actually involves 3 concepts: what is Sony Vegas? What are the formats that Sony Vegas supports to import? And what makes it possible to input SWF to Sony Vegas?

Sony Vegas software family provides complete solutions for all video-edit beginners, experienced filmmakers, or professional broadcast producers to create and edit video and audio masterpieces totally in their way. The flash animation below shall demonstrate the main features of Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD 9.

Sony Vegas supports to import and export the following formats in the chart respectively.

As you can see from the chart above, some frequently-used formats are not included, for example, FLV, SWF, etc. Then how to make SWF compatible with Sony Vegas if the conversion between SWF and Sony Vegas is a necessity? Under this circumstance, an SWF to Sony Vegas converter is definitely need.

Option 1: You can convert SWF to video formats like AVI, MPEG, WMV to make it Sony Vegas friendly.

Option 2: You can convert SWF to audio formats like AIFF, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA for easy input in Sony Vegas.

Option 3: You can convert SWF to image formats like GIF, JPG, TIFF which are Sony Vegas supported import formats.

So, enjoy the excellent video editing features now in Sony Vegas that enable you to transform your original flash SWF file to another video masterpiece!

What if you are a flash game enthusiast but getting bored eventually with the game sources you already have? Or you know a lot of cool flash game websites that you can hang out but sometimes wonder whether you can play those flash games offline? It still makes sense even you have the idea that to share the way how you play the flash game with more friends on Internet.

All right, let us break those hassles down one by one. First, the recommendations of some nice flash game websites. You may notice that the flash game websites we have picked here are presented by a free and handy flash game downloader, which will be discussed later in the second part of this blog.

Flash Game Website Recommend #1 www.bored.com: Your home for fun games. This website is equipped with hundreds of flash games that you can play for free, every day!

Flash Game Website Recommend #2 www.armorgames.com: Flash games from different categories, the site comes along with easy navigations like Web Game, Site News, Player Ranking, New Game and so on.

Flash Game Website Recommend #3 www.bubblebox.com:

Flash Game Website Recommend #4 www.epic-ninja.com:

Flash Game Website Recommend #5 www.newgrounds.com: The large Flash games and animation site that spawned Alien Hominid, has been accepting user-produced submissions since 1999.

Second, way to download flash games from above sites so that you can play offline and at any time you want. This is one of the most useful applications that appreciated a lot by flash game fans. Just use the mentioned flash downloader and enter the webpage URL where your desired flash content is embedded.

Third, for those who want to share the recipe of how to play the flash game on Internet. Well, it sounds not that complicated. All you need is a good SWF to video converter. Choose to generate any popular video format from the original SWF file, play the game as you usually do during the capture process, and then upload the converted game recipe to famous video-sharing websites like YouTube, Google Video, etc. for easy sharing.

Well, when we talk something about conversion, especially the format conversion of different video types, what is your first reaction? Bored? Confused? Or still wondering what is the exact difference between the two formats that I am going to convert?

It is normal and makes sense because almost all the articles and tutorials are actually introducing how to select the target video format, without pointing out the essence and usage of the conversion.

So, we need a special approach to visualize the conversion process from this format to that format, and at the same time, to make the users understand the actual use of input and output video format in a more entertaining way.

Right, we are talking about demo presentation. Here are some examples:

How to make such a demo work? It is easy and just scroll down.

Find a proper host for your original source file: the left part in the illustration. For example, if your source file is flash SWF, upload it to webpage with code, click here for details and other approaches to visualize flashes. If the source file is Microsoft PPT, try to Google some hosting websites that can hold PPT and generate embed code for you to embed it anywhere you want on the internet.

Use the right converting product: the middle part in the illustration. Choose the products have good reputation to convert SWF to video, PPT to video or any other video conversion you need. It bridges the source and target formats, and the most important, it guarantees the good quality of the converted video, makes it playable, customizable and likable.

Find a platform to show your target file: the right part in the illustration. A platform to display your video is much easier to find nowadays. YouTube, Facebook, Myspace, etc will be ok. Most people choose to upload the converted videos to YouTube not only because it accepts diverse video formats, but also generates embed code for convenient insertion to webpage. Of course, you can also create your own web player to display those videos, like this one: Moyea Web Player.

For more interesting flash to video conversion demos, please click here. By the way, try to play those cute flash games, and that is exactly the charm of flash: interaction!