Have a Flash SWF File? convert it to HTML5 with Google Swiffy

http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/

by Concours • 15 years ago

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Achshar• 15 years ago

Machine generated HTML5.. hmm something in the back of my head tells me if you file isn't massive, its worth doing it yourself because it might produce bloated code. i.e it will be kind of difficult to work on that code later yourself.

guard-of-terra• 15 years ago

Tried to recode random Масяня cartoon, it wouldn't play and would not support audio even if it would.

rickdangerous1• 15 years ago

Literally yesterday I had conversation about the coming wave of flash to HTML5 conversion tools and services. Expect to see alot of effort going into conversion automation. Yes there will always be a need for hand crafted conversion but a lot can and will be automated.

est• 15 years ago

> flash to HTML5 conversion tools and services

Which is a horrible thing. Images there are like 20 canvas elements on a page drawing animated ads. I am sure Macbook fans would roar higher than Flash

andybak2• 15 years ago

Moderately complex intro animation from an old e-learning course I did converted successfully (failed on earlier versions of this tool so obviously they've been improving things).

No sound, not much scripting but lots of timeline animation with masked images.

swf: 205kb html: 352kb

(not including the swiffy runtime.js)

Not bad considering all the images have to be base64 encoded.

Generated code looked... generated... But not too awful. You could probably do something with it if you needed to.

However - it's no worse than trying to modify a swf file. You just wouldn't unless you ran it through a decompiler first and I don't see why that wouldn't be possible here also.

In most cases you'd go back to the FLA file or the XML equivalent and modify that instead.

ma2rten2• 15 years ago

Are those sizes before or after gzip compression ?

andybak2• 15 years ago

Before. A quick test by just zipping them up gave:

html: 209kb swf: 205kb

Does anyone know whether 'on the wire' gzip would give similar benefits?

Robin_Message• 15 years ago

I'm glad you liked it and it zipped down to such a small size (I worked on Swiffy file size reduction as an intern. Without the runtime, we were often smaller after gzipping :D)

stewars• 15 years ago

Swiffy saved the day for us recently on a project where we needed an animation to support IE7+ as well as iPad. We were able to have our designer create a flash animation and upload to swiffy to test that the conversion worked. We then used the swf as a fallback for when canvas was not available.

The one HUGE drawback for me with swiffy is there was no standalone compiler that we could use and integrate into the site build. So we now have this manual step of converting the files on the (hopefully still functioning) swiffy website every time a change is required to the animation.

ma2rten2• 15 years ago

I guess it shouldn't be too hard to write a tool which automates that. You could probably even just use curl. I also trust that Google has enough interest in HTML5 adoption that they will make sure that this tool will continue to function.

robterrell• 15 years ago

If you're thinking about using this, you might also consider Gordon (https://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon) or Smokescreen (https://github.com/cesmoak/smokescreen). Gordon's simpler -- very easy to follow code. Whereas Smokescreen, like Swiffy, offers support for audio and AS2. I integrated Gordon into my HTML5 game yesterday to render a walk cycle SWF and the framerate didn't drop. I'm going to do the same thing with Smokescreen next.

SnowLprd2• 15 years ago

Swiffy can't handle files input SWF files larger than 1024 MB and will display an error to that effect if you try. It might be more user-friendly if that fact were displayed on the file upload page. Just a suggestion!

duskwuff• 15 years ago

Larger than a gigabyte? I should hope that you don't have too many Flash files that big...

SnowLprd2• 15 years ago

Hehe... Thanks for catching my error. That should have read: "1 MB" or "1024 KB".

j45• 15 years ago

Too bad this doesn't work in all browsers yet.

noduerme• 15 years ago

Now if they could just port playerglobal 11 to Javascript, we can run Molehill games in Canvas. Think how happy everyone will be to get that CPU-intensive Flash plugin out of their browser, when they find that now every website chews up 400% more processing power. A cynic might think they were promoting Javascript over AS3 so everyone would have to buy a round of newer, faster phones once these SVG animations start hitting the web.

zabar• 15 years ago

You already have tools that do that, like http://jangaroo.net

Just for large project switching to an interpreted language like javascript with another layer of abstraction to emulate the flash API is too much of a performance hit.

Have a Flash SWF File? convert it to HTML5 with Google Swiffy

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