converting .swf to .mpg

[norman]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 14:16 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/06/2008 12:54 PM, norman wrote:
> > I have been asked if I could download and then transfer to a CD some
> > sound files from a website dealing with practice exercises for students
> > of French.  I can play the files in Firefox OK and I can download the
> > files to my hard drive as .swf. Despite searching I am unable to find
> > out how to convert to a .mpg file which I could burn to a CD. Could some
> > kind person help, please. I am using Ubuntu 8.04.
> > 
> > Norman
> > 
> > 
> 
> I quite like WinFF - it's a GUI frontend for ffmpeg:
> 
> http://www.winff.org/
> 
> You will need to install ffmpeg and GStreamer plugin from the universe
> repository:
> 
> sudo apt-get install ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
> 
> Then download the debian deb file from:
> http://www.winff.org/
> [click Downloads]
> direct file is:
> http://winff.googlecode.com/files/winff-0.41-i386.deb
> 
> and install by double-clicking in Nautilus, or from the command line:
> 
> sudo dpkg -i winff-0.41-i386.deb

Very many thanks to all of you for your help and suggestions it is much
appreciated.

Norman