Converting Flash video to HTML5

Question

I have a flash video(.swf) on my website and I want it to convert into such a format so that it remain available from iphone/ipad. Is there any possible way of doing so? Can I convert it into HTML5? If yes can anyone suggest the process and if no, can anyone suggest any other method?

Answer 1

It's absolutely possible to convert flash to html 5, depending on what it is you want to do. A good example of this being done is www.zombo.com (flash) -> http://html5zombo.com/ (html 5).

If you look at the source on html5zombo.com there is an explanation of how he did it (reprinted below)

HTML5zombo.com Bertrand Fan ([email protected]) 5/19/2010

        I wanted zombo.com on my iPad. That is all.

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        How I did it, for nerds:
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        Watched the Net tab for zombo.com in Firebug            

        wget http://www.zombo.com/inrozxa.swf
        wget http://www.zombo.com/welcomeclip.swf

        Opened them in SWFRIP to extract the MP3 and SVG representations of the logo and spinner.
        Opened the SVG files in Adobe Illustrator (ironic, I know), tweaked a bit, exported new SVG files

        Copy-pasted the SVG contents into this HTML file, tweaked the attributes a bit

        Wrote the JS code to rotate the SVG spinner

        Converted the MP3 to OGG using oggenc2 (not really necessary for the iPad, but apparently for Firefox)

        Discovered that the iPad does not respect autoplay on HTML5 audio tags, crafted a javascript link for iPads

        wget http://www.zombo.com/favicon.ico

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        References:
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        http://www.zombo.com/
        http://twitter.com/zombocom
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/swfrip/
        http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/AudioandVideoTagBasics/AudioandVideoTagBasics.html
        http://html5doctor.com/native-audio-in-the-browser/
        http://emacsformacosx.com/
        http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Answer 2

Why not have both. Here is a video tutorial showing how to have Flash video but with an HTML5 fallback http://gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=128 [EDIT] assuming that this is indeed a video, and you will need to convert it to a suitable video file