Flash Filter

Drupal 5 Flash Filter can now be found in the SWF Tools package. This package is fairly stable now and will have a formal release during May.

Q. What is different about flash_filter in SWF Tools?
-- While [flash:filename.flv] syntax is the same, it has different syntax for passing additional variables.
Q. What hasn't been ported yet?
-- The integration of 3rd party code for extracting meta data from swf

4.7 Version descriptoin

This module provides a filter to automate Flash content embedding for users. Core functionality consists of two major parts, the first – it works as a content filter and replaces all meta-tags [flash:filename.swf] with a corresponding HTML

What’s good in this module - is that it uses a helper class to determine a valid flash content and it extract’s file header with all the bit’s and pieces, that's how we are automatically getting all dimensions, what is width and height. Those values are compared against our settings and if they are appropriate we can display Flash inline, if attachment is not a valid Flash then we skip it and in case if it’s bigger than our predefined maximums we will place a small icon what will act as a link to that flash movie being displayed on a single page.