Install get_flash_videos on Linux

yum install ncftp
perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Bundle::CPAN’

perl -MCPAN -e shell

install XML:Simple
install Data:AMF
install Compress:Zlib
install Crypt:Rijndael
install WWW:Mechanize
install Authen::NTLM
install Compress::Zlib
install HTML::Entities
install HTML::Parser
install Net::SSL

exit

wget http://get-flash-videos.googlecode.com/files/get_flash_videos-1.23 -O /usr/local/bin/get_flash_videos
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/get_flash_videos

/usr/local/bin/get_flash_videos

If this is successful you should see get_flash_videos instructions and no dependency errors.

wget http://get-flash-videos.googlecode.com/files/get_flash_videos-1.23 -O /usr/local/bin/get_flash_videos

chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/get_flash_videos

Load/Embed PowerPoint PPT, PDF, PPS, DOC in Flash

Flash is limited to loading files in certain formats.

To include something else in your flash chats and presentations you need to convert these files to supported formats. Most can be converted to swf.

See these tools below:

authorPOINT Lite Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter for PPS, PPT to SWF

iSpring Free PowerPoint, YouTube to SWF

Google Docs Viewer for PowerPoint, PDF, Tiff

SWFtools : PDF2SWF, SWFcombine, WAV2SWF, AVI2SWF

PDFcreator : Convert any windows printable document (i.e. DOC)  to PDF

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