Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Do More With 7-Zip

7-Zip is one the best freeware and open source compression utilities so far. I use it a lot when I don't want to install a software and poop into my registry. Plus it works with any EXE and DLL file so you can look inside the program resources. Also I randomly figured that new 9.15 Beta and older 9.x series works nice with extracting SWF and FlashVideo files.


 The comments always helps to see what's inside. After extracting a audio file it was a acc file inside,but no player worked with it. Somehow headers was messed up. But the behind.audio.flv worked just fine. The easiest way to extract audio from Youtube movies is download FormatFactory . It's freeware and the best converter I found. Works just fine when you need to rip a DVD into single iPod video file.

Extracting textures and music resources from Flash games:

Simple download a SWF file and open with 7-zip.


 All you will see is the one single file that we need to extract again. Open the Flash file with tilde in 7-zip and you should see something like this:

That's all. By the comments you can easy figure out where is JPEG image and MP3/WAV sounds. :)
If you want more tools for editing and creating Flash files take a look at these resources:
http://swftools.org/
http://www.osflash.org/
http://www.libming.org/
http://www.flashdevelop.org

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