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Living Room / Re: swf to gif (or other usable format)

« Last post by rgdot on June 02, 2021, 11:44 AM »

Not sure if distribution is allowed but thanks

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Living Room / Re: swf to gif (or other usable format)

« Last post by rgdot on June 02, 2021, 09:24 AM »

Will try ffmpeg and swifty, thanks. Can I get the exe please? It is not available on the site I believe

In previous times (not related to this swf) no matter what I did screentogif looked like it lost quality or resolution, played with frames and every other setting in it and still never understood why.

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Living Room / Re: swf to gif (or other usable format)

« Last post by rgdot on June 01, 2021, 04:29 PM »

Looks like the same issue with the download version and a couple of other online convertors. The output is a static file, some formats only 1k size.

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Living Room / Re: swf to gif (or other usable format)

« Last post by rgdot on June 01, 2021, 03:47 PM »

The online version (tried to mp4, avi and others) doesn't seem to handle the swf file well, it says converting but the converted file is 0 seconds (but over 100k). The original swf file is 39k, nothing too unusual, basically animated text and logo.
Will attempt the download version, thanks.

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Living Room / swf to gif (or other usable format)

« Last post by rgdot on June 01, 2021, 02:46 PM »

Hi all

I have a swf file that I need to convert to be usable on a current web page. I can only find flash emulators that open the swf file in a browser and little else (they can't export to animated gif for example(?))
A downloadable software like lightspark does not even install properly or crash (latest version, tried both 32bit and 64bit)

I would think an Adobe product like After Effects would be able to open it and export it to a usable format but even if it does I have no access to Adobe products.

Any ideas?

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by rgdot on December 29, 2019, 10:41 PM »

If I don't manually add anything the GoTo menus does nothing, clicking it there is nothing. This of course after navigating through various folders and clicking on GoTo everytime.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by rgdot on December 29, 2019, 10:28 PM »

No change.

When I manually add a folder it is remembered and I can use the GoTo to choose that folder.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020: Solar Date Calculator

« Last post by rgdot on December 27, 2019, 03:01 PM »

Very cool 

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by rgdot on December 26, 2019, 11:21 PM »

Win 10 1809 GoTo remains inaccessible

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Living Room / Re: Merry Christmas to All

« Last post by rgdot on December 25, 2019, 04:34 PM »

Merry Christmas everyone

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Living Room / Re: Working a bit on server 12/24/19 - expect some downtime

« Last post by rgdot on December 24, 2019, 07:34 PM »

Can we expect a partial refund? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use

« Last post by rgdot on December 22, 2019, 05:28 PM »

This also relates to DoogiePIM in the sense that an Android version was to come but was pushed back in favour of more focus on the local program....imo not coincidentally development has slowed somewhat

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use

« Last post by rgdot on December 21, 2019, 09:15 PM »

DoogiePIM
Clipboard H+S
FastStone Image Viewer

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General Software Discussion / Re: Phishing Attack Hijacks Office 365 Accounts Using OAuth Apps

« Last post by rgdot on December 10, 2019, 04:52 PM »

The general concept of allowing third parties access to accounts is asking for trouble. To my knowledge the only place I have done this is a couple of things on twitter and a couple of things to save backups to dropbox, the latter I only did after years of resisting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Ghostpress anti-keylogger legit (non-malware) software

« Last post by rgdot on December 05, 2019, 06:47 PM »

These would indicate that it is legit, at least low chance of non-legit

https://www.softpedi...ing/Ghostpress.shtml
https://www.majorgee...ails/ghostpress.html

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020: quick generator peek

« Last post by rgdot on December 02, 2019, 01:16 PM »

Somewhat on topic:
of course it is not possible to compare browsers with audio/video players but using PotPlayer I paste the youtube url and it barely nudges the cpu, ram, disk usage. In FF (btw with only 1 addon) it keeps eating all of them. I have tried tweaks and config settings for years, not just recently, it is a losing battle, it is crazy what browsers have become. Chrome seems to behave a bit better but it is not vast improvement. Again this is not one version or one cheap computer, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for cheap email hoster

« Last post by rgdot on November 29, 2019, 12:32 AM »

If you are willing to go with a host and not strictly an email provider then hawkhost has prices of $1.35 per month as black friday promotion, very good support and for sure not a spam hoster.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone know someone interested in paid Wordpress site redesign?

« Last post by rgdot on November 24, 2019, 05:06 PM »

Depending on scope I can help, if he is interested in sharing details to which I will reply 'I can' or 'sorry can not'.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Stadia Google

« Last post by rgdot on November 21, 2019, 02:42 PM »

Gaming version of Wave launch?  

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Living Room / Re: QuickTime messed up everything

« Last post by rgdot on November 20, 2019, 11:06 PM »

QuickTime is not even supported by Apple anymore. It is dead.

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Living Room / Re: Migrating from Ymail to Gmail

« Last post by rgdot on November 15, 2019, 02:03 PM »

Maintaining records is one thing, actively needing them is another.
For maintaining records you could download Yahoo email and have them stored in a searchable database using something like Mailstore Home.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive

« Last post by rgdot on October 23, 2019, 09:21 PM »

I have done something for a while and I think app mentioned it here recently too. Obviously not exactly what you are looking for but comes closer than you might think. A local WordPress installation.

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Living Room / Re: DC on Discord :O

« Last post by rgdot on October 20, 2019, 02:05 PM »

And of course the most important thing is the GIFs 

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Living Room / Re: TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

« Last post by rgdot on October 17, 2019, 10:05 PM »

Basement alert:
"Freedom" morphing into the right to do anything you want at the expense of others ... is humanity's downfall

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Living Room / Re: Questionable URL and Netgear Armor

« Last post by rgdot on October 11, 2019, 09:49 AM »

WNS is windows notification service, not being able to go to it via browser, whether directly, archived or otherwise, doesn't necessarily make it malicious.