This is the first of the three articles on how to use and manipulate multimedia formats: Flash, video and audio.

In this first article, we will concentrate on Flash files: how to download them from websites, how to convert them from one format to another, say .flv to .swf or .avi, how to extract music from Flash movies, and several more cool tricks.

Flash content

We encounter Flash content quite a lot. There are entire websites created with Flash. You have Flash games. Recently, one of the most popular formats to stream video and audio online has become, take a wild guess, yes, correct - Flash. A website almost synonymous with Flash is - no surprise here - Youtube, which contains an endless collection of Flash clips, just waiting to be seen. And sometimes, downloaded, too.

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